lakza
lakṣa ( Skt. ), mark : anena ca lakṣa-nikṣepeṇa SP 316.10 (prose), and by this depositing of the sort just described , lit. by this mark-deposit , or, perhaps better, by this depositing on the (designated) mark (target, lakṣa). Acc. to Senart , lakṣa is read for lakṣaṇa (4) by mss. at Mv i.207.16 , where he keeps it, tho in the repetition ii.12.6 he keeps lakṣaṇa with mss. there; in i.62.12 he em. lakṣa for lakṣaṇa, alleging metrical grounds, but the resulting meter is not correct; read rather maha-( m.c. for mahā-)-puruṣalakṣaṇavarāṇāṃ; and in i.207.16 we must also read, with ii.12.6 , dvātriṃśallakṣaṇadharo (or °śa-lakṣaṇadharo?). There is no evidence that the Buddhist 32 lakṣaṇa were ever called lakṣa, despite Skt. lakṣa for lakṣaṇa, Vikr. car. JR VII.0.2 ( HOS 27.233 ).