Apte Sanskrit-English Dictionary
ind. [vṛ-thāl kicca] 1 To no purpose, in vain, uselessly, unpro- fitably; often with the force an ad- jective; vyarthaṃ yatra kapīṃdrasakhyamapi me vīryaṃ harīṇāṃ vṛthā U. 3. 45; divaṃ yadi prārthayase vṛthā śramaḥ Ku. 5. 45.
2 Un- necessarily.
3 Foolishly, idly, wan- tonly.
4 Wrongly; improperly. (At the beginning of comp. vṛthā may be translated by ‘vain, useless, improper, false, idle’ &c.). Comp. akṣyā...