kṣáya m. an abode, dwelling-place, seat, house (cf. uru- and su-kṣáya, rátha-, divikṣayá), [RV.]; [VS. v, 38]; [TS.]; [Pāṇ.]; [MBh.]; [R.]; [BhP.]
the house of Yama (cf. yama-kṣ°, vaivasvata-kṣ°)
abode in Yama's dominion Comm. on [R. (ed. Bomb.) ii, 109, 11]
(= kṣití) family, race, [RV. i, 123, 1.]
kṣayá (the accent is on the last syllable in the sense ‘destruction’, accord. to [Pāṇ. iii, 3, 56] and [vi, 1, 63].) m. ([Pāṇ. vi, 1, 201]) loss, waste, wane, diminution, destruction, decay, wasting or wearing away (often ifc.), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.
fall (as of prices, opposed to vṛddhi, e.g. kṣayo vṛddhiś ca paṇyānām, ‘the fall and rise in the price of commodities’), [Yājñ. ii, 258]
removal, [W.]
end, termination (e.g. nidrā-kṣ°, the end of sleep, [R. vi, 105, 14]; dina-kṣaye, at the end of day, [MBh. i, 699]; [R. iv, 3, 10]; jīvita-kṣaye, at the end of life, [Daś.]; āyuṣaḥ kṣ° id., [Ragh.]; kṣayaṃ √ gam, √ yā, √ i, or upa√ i, to become less, be diminished, go to destruction, come to an end, perish, [Nal.]; [R.]; [Suśr.]; [VarBṛS.]; [Daś.]; [Amar.]; [Hit.]; kṣayaṃ√ nī, to destroy, [R. v, 36, 51])