Apte Sanskrit-English Dictionary
[apa-artha], apārthaka a. 1 Useless, unprofitable, worthless; sarvametadapārthaṃ te kṣipraṃ tau saṃprasādaya Mb.
2 Meaningless, unmeaning, sense- less; apārthaṃ bahu bhāṣate Suśr. rthaṃ Sense- less or incoherent talk or argument (regarded as one of the faults of composition in rhetoric); yogyatāsa- ttyākāṃkṣāśūnyaṃ vākyaṃ Gautama; paurvāparyā- yogādapratibaṃdhārthamapārthakaṃ; cf. also Kāv. 3. 128;...