cl. 1. cárati, rarely °te (Subj. cárat, 3. pl. cárān, [RV.]; perf. cacā́ra [[AV.] &c.], 2. sg. cacartha, [BhP. iv, 28, 52]; pl. cerur, &c.; °ratur, [ŚBr.] &c.; Ā. cere, [BhP. iii, 1, 19]; fut. cariṣyati, °te; aor. acārīt [[ŚBr. xiv] &c.]; inf. cáritum [[ii]; [MBh. i], [iii]; [R.]] or cartum [[MBh. iii], [xiii]; [R. iii]; [BhP. v]], Ved. carádhyai [[RV. i, 61, 12]], cáritave [[113, 5]], caráse [[92, 9] and [v, 47, 4]], carā́yai [[vii, 77, 1]], caritos [[AitĀr. i, 1, 1, 7]]; ind.p. caritvā́, [ŚBr. xiv]; [BhP. x, 75, 19]; cartvā, [MBh. v, 3790]; cīrtvā, [xiii, 495]; p. cárat) to move one's self, go, walk, move, stir, roam about, wander (said of men, animals, water, ships, stars, &c.), [RV.]; [AV.] &c.; to spread, be diffused (as fire), [VarBṛS. xix, 7]; to move or travel through, pervade, go along, follow, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to behave, conduct one's self, act, live, treat (with instr. or loc.), [RV.]; [AV.] &c.; to be engaged in, occupied or busy with (instr., e.g. yajñéna c°, ‘to be engaged in a sacrifice’, [ŚBr.]), [RV. x, 71, 5]; [AV. vi, 117, 1]; [AitBr.] &c.; (with [[ŚBr. iv]; [ChUp.]; [Kauś.]; [ŚāṅkhŚr.]] or without [[ŚBr. ii], [xiv]] mithunám) to have intercourse with, have to do with (instr.); (with a p. or adj. or ind.p. or adv.) to continue performing or being (e.g. arcantaś cerur, ‘they continued worshipping’, [ŚBr. i]; svāminam avajñāya caret, ‘he may go on despising his master’, [Hit.]), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.] &c.; (in astron.) to be in any asterism or conjunction, [VarBṛS.]; to undertake, set about, under go, observe, practise, do or act in general, effect, make (e.g. vratā́ni ‘to observe vows’, [AV.] &c.; vighnaṃ c°, ‘to put a hindrance’, [MBh.]; bhaikṣaṃ c° ‘to beg’, [Mn. ii]; vivādaṃ c°, ‘to be engaged in a lawsuit’, [Mn. viii, 8]; mṛgayāṃ c°, ‘to hunt’, [MBh.]; [R.]; sambandhāṃś c°, ‘to enter into connections’, [Mn. ii, 40]; mārgaṃ cacāra bāṇaiḥ, ‘he made a way with arrows’, [R. iii, 34, 4]; tapasā indriyāṇi c°, to exercise one's organs with penance, [MBh. xiv, 544]), [RV.]; [AV.] &c.; to consume, eat (with acc.), graze, [Yājñ. iii, 324]; [Pañcat.]; [BhP. v], [x]; [Subh.]; [Hit.]; to make or render (with double acc.) e.g. naréndraṃ satya-sthaṃ carāma, ‘let us make the king keep his word’, [R. ii, 107, 19] : Caus. cārayati, to cause to move or walk about, [AV. xii, 4, 28] (aor. ácīcarat), [ŚāṅkhBr. xxx, 8]; [Lāṭy.]; to pasture, [MBh. xiv]; [R.]; [BhP. iii], [x]; to send, direct, turn, move, [MBh.] &c.; to cause any one (acc.) to walk through (acc.), [MBh. xii]; [R. v, 49, 14]; to drive away from (abl.), [MBh. xii, 12944]; to cause any one (acc.) to practise or perform (with acc.), [Mn. xi, 177] and [192]; to cause (any animal acc.) to eat, [Bādar. ii, 2, 5], Sch.; to cause to copulate, [Mn. viii, 362]; to ascertain (as through a spy instr.), [MBh. iii], [xv]; [R. i], [vi]; to doubt (cf. vi-), [Dhātup. xxxiii, 71] : Desid. cicariṣati, to try to go, [ŚāṅkhBr. xxx, 8] (p. cicarṣat) ; to wish to act or conduct one's self, [ŚBr. xi]; to try to have intercourse with (instr.), [vi] : Intens. carcarīti Ā. or rarely [[MBh. iii, 12850]] Pass. cañcūryate (°curīti and °cūrti, [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 87 f.]; ind.p. °cūrya, [R. iv, 29, 22]; p. once P. °cūryat, [Hariv. 3602]) to move quickly or repeatedly, walk about, roam about (in loc.), [AV. xx, 127, 4]; [MBh.] &c.; to act wantonly or coquettishly, [Bhaṭṭ. iv, 19] (cf. [Pāṇ. iii, 1, 24]); [cf. πέλομαι, ἀμϕί-πολο-ς, ἀνα-τολή &c.]
mfn. (g. pacādi) moving, locomotive (as animals opposed to plants, or as the Karaṇas in astrol.), [VPrāt.]; [ŚvetUp. iii, 18]; [Mn. vii, 15]; [MBh.] &c.
(= saṃcārin) forming the retinue of any one, [BhP. iv, 29, 23]
mf(I)n. ifc. ([Pāṇ. v, 3, 53 f.]; [vi, 3, 35 f.]) having been formerly (e.g. āḍhya-, devadatta-, qq.vv.; a-dṛṣṭa- or nadṛṣṭa-, ‘not seen before’, [Kathās.] [once f. irr. ā, [lx, 58]] [Sarvad. iii, 16]; [vii, 19]; an-ālokita- id., [Bālar. iv, 54/55])
m. a spy, secret emissary or agent, [Mn. vii, 122]; [Hariv. 10316]; [R.] &c.
= caraṭa, [L.]
the small shell Cypraea moneta, [L.]
the wind, air, [BhP. x, 14, 11]
the planet Mars, [L.]
a game played with dice (similar to backgammon), [L.]
a cowrie, [W.]
‘passage’, see a-, duś-
n. (in astron.) ascensional difference, [Gol. vii]
(in astron., read, ‘the difference of time between the rising of a heavenly body at Laṅkā or Ceylon, over which the first meridian passes, and that of its rising at any partic. place’).
cl. 1. °cati, to abuse, censure, menace, [Dhātup. xvii, 67]; to injure, [xxviii, 17] : cl. 10. °cayati, to repeat a word (in reciting the Veda, esp. while adding iti), [RPrāt. xv, 10] and [12] to talk over, discuss, [Hcar. vii]; (also Ā. [Vop.]) to study, [Dhātup. xxxiii, 38.]
carú m. (g. bhīmādi) a kind of vessel (in which a particular oblation is prepared), saucepan, pot, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr. xiii]; [KātyŚr.]; [Kauś.]; [Mn.]; [Yājñ.]
a cloud (cf. [RV. i, 7, 6]), [Naigh. i, 10]
an oblation (of rice, barley and pulse) boiled with butter and milk for presentation to the gods or manes, [VS. xxix, 6]; [TS. i]; [ŚBr.]; [AitBr. i, 1] & [7]; [KātyŚr.] &c. (pl. [Yājñ. i, 298]).
cáraka m. a wanderer, wandering religious student, [ŚBr. xiv]; [Pāṇ. v, 1, 11]; [Lalit. i, 28]
a spy, [Naiṣ. iv, 116]
a kind of ascetic, [VarBṛ. xv, 1]
a kind of medicinal plant, [L.]
N. of a Muni and physician (the Serpent-king Śeṣa, who was the recipient of the Āyur-veda; once on visiting the earth and finding it full of sickness he became moved with pity and determined to become incarnate as the son of a Muni for alleviating disease; he was called Caraka because he had visited the earth as a kind of spy or cara; he then composed a new book on medicine, based on older works of Agni-veśa and other pupils of Ātreya, [Bhpr.])
N. of a lexicographer
cáraka m. pl. (cf. [Pāṇ. iv, 3, 107]) N. of a branch of the black Yajur-veda (the practises and rites enjoined by which are different in some respects from those in [ŚBr.]), [ŚBr. iv]; [Lāṭy. v, 4, 20]; Sch. on [VS.] & [ŚBr.]; [VāyuP. i, 61, 10]