kzaya
kṣaya , m. (as in Skt. , and Pali khaya), exhaustion, perishing, decay ; (special uses, 1 ) āyuḥ-kṣayāya Mv i.52.6 , āyuḥkṣayāya ca karmakṣayāya ca i.338.17 , (beings fall from heaven to earth) in order to ‘exhaust’ (work out, finish) their (destined) life (and the force of their past deeds); so, I agree with Senart , the text seems to mean; but in the Pali form of the same passage DN i.17.27 we find ablatives, āyukkhayā vā puññakkhayā vā, because of the exhaustion of their lives (in heaven) or of their merits (entitling them to live there, they fall to earth); ( 2 ) kṣayajñāna (= Pali khayañāṇa), knowledge of (the fact of) decay, perishability , in °na-lābhikaṃ kuśalamūlam Mvy 1209 ; a-śuddha-kṣayajñāna-viṣayiṇāṃ Laṅk 17.6—7 , that do not belong to the sphere of pure knowledge of perishability(?) [( 3 ) in Gv 106.5 and 18 read akṣaya , q.v. , for kṣaya, a high number.]