anarthaka
अनर्थक anarthaka'Meaningless' or 'purposeless'; the charge that Kautsa, in Yaska's Nirukta, laid against the Vedic mantras and that Yaska set out to refute.
Where this term appears
- Meaning and the Measure of Time Treatise
In Sarup's words: "'If (the object of the science) is to ascertain the meaning of Vedic stanzas, it is useless,' says Kautsa, 'for the Vedic stanzas have no meaning.'" Anarthaka.