| caraṇa | चरण | cáraṇa m. n. (g. ardharcādi) a foot, [Gobh.]; [Mn. ix, 277]; [Bādar.]; [MBh.] &c. (ifc. f(A). , [Hariv. 3914]; [Mālav.]) |
| (ifc. pl.) ‘the feet of’, the venerable (N. N.), [MBh. xii, 174, 24], Sch. |
| a pillar, support, [Hariv. 4643] |
| the root (of a tree), [L.] |
| a Pāda or line of a stanza, [Śrut.] |
| a dactyl |
| a 4th part (pāda), [VarBṛ.]; [Līl.] |
| a section, subdivision, [Bhpr.]; [Sarvad.] (catuś-, q.v.) |
| a school or branch of the Veda, [Nir. i, 17]; [Pāṇ.]; [MBh. xii], [xiii]; [Pañcat. iv, 3] |
| cáraṇa n. going round or about, motion, course, [RV. iii, 5, 5]; [ix, 113, 9]; [x, 136, 6] and [139, 6]; [ŚBr. ii], [x]; [Sāh.] |
| acting, dealing, managing, (liturgical) performance, observance, [AV. vii, 106, 1]; [ŚBr.]; [ŚāṅkhŚr.]; [KātyŚr.]; [VP. iii, 5, 13] |
| behaviour, conduct of life, [KātyŚr.]; [ChUp. v, 10] |
| good or moral conduct, [Kauś. 67]; [MBh. xiii, 3044]; [Lalit.] |
| practising (generally ifc. cf. tapaś- [tapasaś c°, [Mn. vi, 75]], bhikṣā-, bhaikṣa-), [Gobh. iii, 1, 12]; [Nal.] |
| grazing, [W.] |
| consuming, eating, [L.] |
| a particular high number, [Buddh.]; [L.] (cf. dvi-, puraś-, ratha-). |
| caraṇaka | चरणक | n. a small foot, [Śiś.] |
| caraṇapa | चरणप | caraṇa—pa m. ‘root-drinker’, a tree, [L.] |
| caraṇasa | चरणस | mfn. fr. °ṇa, g. tṛṇādi. |
| caraṇatra | चरणत्र | caraṇa—tra ‘foot-saver’, a shoe, [Kuṭṭanīm.] |
| caraṇavat | चरणवत् | caraṇa—vat mfn. of good conduct, [GopBr. i, 2, 5.] |
| caraṇadāsa | चरणदास | caraṇa—dāsa m. N. of the author of the Guru-śiṣya-saṃvāda and of the philos. poem Nāciketopākhyāna. |
| caraṇagata | चरणगत | caraṇa—gata mfn. fallen at one's feet, [W.] |
| caraṇapāta | चरणपात | caraṇa—pāta m. = -patana, [Pañcat. iv, 9] |
| tread, kick, [Hariv. 13607]; [Pañcat. ii, 47/48] |
| caraṇasevā | चरणसेवा | caraṇa—sevā f. ‘service on one's feet’, devotion, [W.] |
| caraṇayuga | चरणयुग | caraṇa—yuga n. both feet, [W.] |
| two lines of a stanza, [W.] |
| caraṇabhaṅga | चरणभङ्ग | caraṇa—bhaṅga m. fracture of the foot, [Pañcat. i, 22/23] |
| caraṇalagna | चरणलग्न | caraṇa—lagna mfn. = -gata, [Dhūrtas.] |
| caraṇanyāsa | चरणन्यास | caraṇa—nyāsa m. footstep, [Ratnāv. i, 11] |
| foot-mark, [Megh. 56.] |
| caraṇapadma | चरणपद्म | caraṇa—padma m. n. = -kamala, [W.] |
| caraṇapṛṣṭha | चरणपृष्ठ | caraṇa—pṛṣṭha m. the back of the foot, [Daś. viii, 192.] |
| caraṇavyūha | चरणव्यूह | caraṇa—vyūha m. N. of a treatise on the schools of the Veda. |
| caraṇayodhin | चरणयोधिन् | caraṇa—yodhin m. ‘foot-fighter’, a cock, [R. (B) iv, 58, 31.] |
| caraṇagranthi | चरणग्रन्थि | caraṇa—granthi m. ‘foot-joint’, the ancle, [ĀpŚr. vii, 2, 6], Sch. |
| caraṇakamala | चरणकमल | caraṇa—kamala n. ‘foot-lotus’, a beautiful foot, [W.] |
| caraṇaparvan | चरणपर्वन् | caraṇa—parvan n. = -granthi, [L.] |
| caraṇapatana | चरणपतन | caraṇa—patana n. a foot-fall, [Amar.] |
| caraṇapatita | चरणपतित | caraṇa—patita mfn. = -ga, [W.] |
| caraṇaśuśrūṣā | चरणशुश्रूषा | caraṇa—śuśrūṣā f. = -patana, [R. iii, 14, 8.] |
| caraṇaprasāra | चरणप्रसार | caraṇa—prasāra m. stretching the legs, [Mn. ii, 198]; [Kull.] |
| caraṇakisalaya | चरणकिसलय | caraṇa—kisalaya n. id., [W.] |