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karaकरkará mf(I, rarely A)n. (for 2. See p. 254, col. 3) (√ kṛ), a doer, maker, causer, doing, making, causing, producing (esp. ifc.; cf. duḥkhakara, bhayaṃ-k°, sampat-k°, &c.; cf. Lat. cerus, ‘creator’), [AV. xii, 2, 2]; [Mn.]; [Pañcat.] &c.
helping, promoting, [RV. i, 116, 13]
kará m. the act of doing, making &c. (ifc.; cf. īṣatkara, su-k°, duṣ-k°, &c.)
‘the doer’, the hand, [RV. x, 67, 6]; [MBh.]; [Mn.] &c.
a measure (the breadth of twenty-four thumbs)
an elephant's trunk, [MBh.]; [Pañcat.] &c.
the claws of a crab, [Hit.]
symbolical expression for the number two
the lunar mansion Hasta, [VarBṛS.]
m. (for 1. See p. 253, col. 1) (√ kṝ), a ray of light, sunbeam, moonbeam, [R.]; [Megh.]; [Pañcat.] &c.
hail, [L.]
royal revenue, toll, tax, tribute, duty, [Mn.]; [Yājñ.]; [MBh.] &c.
karadकरद्onomat. (with iti), [MānGṛ.]
karasकरस्káras n. a deed, action, [RV. iv, 19, 10.]
káras See under 1. kará.
karabhāकरभाf. a particular plant, [L.]
karabhīकरभीf. a she-camel, [L.]
Tragia Involucrata, [L.]
karabhūकरभूkara—bhū m. a fingernail.
karabhaकरभm. (for 2. See col. 3) (√ kṝ, [Uṇ. iii, 122]; but more probably connected with kara), the trunk of an elephant, [MBh.]; [Śak.] &c.
a young elephant, [BhP.]
a camel, [MBh.]; [Suśr.] &c.
a young camel, [Pañcat.]
the metacarpus (the hand from the wrist to the root of the fingers), [Sāh.] Comm. on [Uṇ.] &c.
(in mus.) a singer who wrinkles the forehead when singing
a kind of perfume, [L.]
a wall, [L.]
N. of Danta-vakra (king of the Karūṣas), [MBh. ii, 577]
(for 1. See col. 2) n. the lunar mansion called Hasta, [Hcat.]
&c., for 1. See p. 254, col. 2
for 2., p. 254, col. 3.
karaphuकरफुa particular high number, [L.] ([Buddh.])
karaṇīकरणीkáraṇī f. a woman of the above mixed tribe, [Yājñ. i, 95]
(with sutā) an adopted daughter, [R. (ed. Gorr.) i, 19, 9]
(in arithm.) a surd or irrational number, surd root
the side of a square, [Śulbas.] Comm. on [VS.]
a particular measure Comm. on [KātyŚr.]
a particular position of the fingers
karaṇaकरणkáraṇa mf(I) n (once karaṇá, [RV. i, 119, 7]) doing, making, effecting, causing (esp. ifc.; cf. antakaraṇa, uṣṇaṃ-k°, &c.), [R.] &c.
clever, skilful, [RV. i, 119, 7]
káraṇa m. a helper, companion, [AV. vi, 46, 2]; [xv, 5, 1]-[6]; [xix, 57, 3]
a man of a mixed class (the son of an outcast Kṣatriya, [Mn. x, 22]; or the son of a Śūdra woman by a Vaiśya, [Yājñ. i, 92]; or the son of a Vaiśya woman by a Kṣatriya, [MBh. i, 2446]; [4521]; the occupation of this class is writing, accounts &c.)
writer, scribe, [W.]
káraṇa m. (in Gr.) a sound or word as an independent part of speech (or as separated from the context; in this sense usually n.), [Kāś.] on [Pāṇ. iii, 1, 41]; [Pat.] Comm. on [RPrāt.]
káraṇa m. (in mus.) a kind of time, [Kum. vi, 40]
káraṇa n. the act of making, doing, producing, effecting, [ŚBr.]; [MBh.] &c. (very often ifc., e.g. muṣṭi-k°, virūpa-k°)
an act, deed, [RV.]
an action (esp. a religious one), [Yājñ. i, 250]; [R.]
the special business of any tribe or caste, [L.]
a calculation (esp. an astronomical one), [VarBṛS.]
an astrological division of the day (these Karaṇas are eleven, viz. vava, valava, kaulava, taitila, gara, vaṇija, viṣṭi, śakuni, catuṣpada, kintughna, and nāga, two being equal to a lunar day; the first seven are called a-dhruvāṇi or movable, and fill, eight times repeated, the space from the second half of the first day in the moon's increase to the first half of the fourteenth day in its wane; the four others are dhruvāṇi or fixed, and occupy the four half-days from the second half of the fourteenth day in the wane of the moon to the first half of the first day in its increase), [VarBṛS.]; [Suśr.] &c.
pronunciation, articulation, [APrāt.]
(in Gr.) a sound or word as an independent part of speech, separated from its context, [Pāṇ.], [Kāś.] &c., ( may be used in this way like kāra, e.g. iti-karaṇa, [ŚāṅkhŚr.])
the posture of an ascetic
a posture in sexual intercourse
instrument, means of action, [ŚvetUp.]; [Yājñ.]; [Megh.]
an organ of sense or of speech, [VPrāt.]; [PārGṛ.]
(in law) an instrument, document, bond, [Mn. viii, 51]; [52]; [154]
(in Gr.) the means or instrument by which an action is effected, the idea expressed by the instrumental case, instrumentality, [Pāṇ. i, 4, 42]; [ii, 3, 18]; [iii, 2, 45]
cause (= kāraṇa)
a spell, charm, [Kathās.] (cf. karaṇa-prayoga)
rhythm, time, [Kum.]
body, [Megh.]; [Kum.]; [Kād.]
N. of a treatise of Varāha-mihira on the motion of the planets
of a work belonging to the Śiva-darśana
a field, [L.]
the mind, heart, [W.] (cf. antaḥ-karaṇa)
grain, [W.]
(also) a sinew, tendon, muscle, [Kir.]
&c. See p. 254, col. 1.
karaṇiकरणिf. doing, making (cf. a-karaṇi)
form, aspect, [Bālar.] &c.
karathaकरथm. N. of a physician, [BrahmaP.]
karadaकरदkara—da ( kara-da; for 2. See p. 254, col. 3) mfn. one who gives his hand, [W.]
kara—da mfn. paying taxes, subject to tax, tributary, [MBh.]
karajaकरजkara—ja m. ‘produced in or from the hand’, a finger-nail, [Mn.]; [MBh.]; [Suśr.] &c.
Pongamia Glabra (= karañja), [L.]
kara—ja n. a kind of perfume (resembling a nail in appearance, = vyāghra-nakha), [L.]
karakaकरकm. (for 2. See col. 3) a water-vessel (esp. one used by students or ascetics), [MBh.]; [R.]
a species of bird, [L.]
hand (?), [L.]
N. of several plants (the pomegranate tree, Pongamia Glabra, Butea Frondosa, Bauhinia Variegata, Mimusops Elengi, Capparis Aphylla), [L.]
a cocoa-nut shell, [L.]
m. n. a cocoa-nut shell hollowed to form a vessel
m. pl. N. of a people, [MBh.]; [VP.]
n. fungus, mushroom, [L.]
m. (for 1. See col. 1) hail
toll, tax, tribute.
karamaकरमm. (= kalama) a reed for writing with, [Kāraṇḍ.]
karavīकरवीf. the leaf of the plant Asa Foetida, [Suśr.] (cf. karvarī, kavarī, kāvarī.)
karaṭāकरटाf. an elephant's temple
a cow difficult to be milked, [L.]
karaṭīकरटीf. a crow, [L.]
karaṭaकरटm. an elephant's temple, [MBh.]; [Bhartṛ.] &c.
the spot between the forehead and ear of a bird, [VarBṛS.]
a crow, [BhP. v, 14, 29]; [Śāntiś.] &c.
a kind of drum Comm. on [VarBṛS.]
a man of a low or degraded profession, [L.]
a bad Brāhman, [L.]
an atheist, unbeliever, impugner of the doctrines of the Veda, [L.]
a kind of funeral ceremony, [L.]
Carthamus Tinctorius, [L.]
m. pl. N. of a people, [MBh. vi, 370]; [VP.]
m. of a royal dynasty
mfn. dark-red, [VarBṛS. lxi, 2]; [6.]
karaṭuकरटुm. the Numidian crane, [L.] (cf. kareṭavyā, kareṭu, &c.)
karabhinकरभिन्m. ‘having a trunk’, an elephant, [L.]
karaṅkaकरङ्कm. the skull, head, [Kathās.]; [Mālatīm.]
a cocoa-nut hollowed to form a cup or vessel, [L.]
a kind of sugar-cane (cf. the next), [L.]
any bone of the body, [L.]
[cf. Gk. κάρυον, κέρας, καρκίνος; Lat. carina, cornu, cancer; Eng. horn; cf. karka.]
karaṇinकरणिन्mfn. having instruments, [VP.]
m. N. of a teacher.
karaṇḍaकरण्डmf(I, L.)n. ([Uṇ. i, 128]) a basket or covered box of bamboo wicker-work, [BhP.]; [Bhartṛ.] &c.
a bee-hive, honey-comb, [L.]
m. a sword, [L.]
a sort of duck, [L.]
a species of plant (= dalāḍhaka), [L.]
n. a piece of wood, block, [Bhpr.]
See p. 254, col. 2.
karañjīकरञ्जीkárañjī f. Galedupa Piscidia, [Bhpr.]
karañjaकरञ्जkárañja m. the tree Pongamia Glabra (used medicinally), [Āp.]; [Suśr.]; [MBh. iii]
N. of an enemy of Indra (slain by this god), [RV. i, 53, 8]
karambhāकरम्भा(ā), f. Asparagus Racemosus, [L.]
fennel
N. of the daughter of a king of Kaliṅga and wife of Akrodhana, [MBh. i, 3775]
karambhaकरम्भkarambhá as, m. groats or coarsely-ground oats &c.
a dish of parched grain, a cake or flour or meal mixed with curds, a kind of gruel (generally offered to Pūṣan as having no teeth to masticate hard food), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.] &c.
a mixture
N. of a poisonous plant, [Suśr.]
of a son of Śakuni and father of Devarāta, [Hariv.]
of the father of Asura Mahiṣa
of a monkey, [R.]
of a brother of Rambha
karambhá mfn. mixed (as an odour), [BhP.]
karambhiकरम्भिm. N. of a son of Śakuni and father of Devarāta, [BhP.]; [VP.]
(ayas) pl. the lineage of Karambhi.
karambaकरम्बmfn. (√ 1. kṛ, [Uṇ. iv, 82]), mixed
set, inlaid, [W.]
m. a kind of gruel.
karanthaकरन्थm. pl. N. of a people, [VP.]
kararudhकररुध्kara—rudh mfn. warding off a hand (and ‘a ray’), [Megh.]
kara—rudh mfn. ray-obstructing.
karasthaकरस्थkara—stha mfn. lying in the hand, [Naiṣ.]
karasnaकरस्नkarásna m. the fore-part of the arm, [RV.]
a finger-nail, [ŚāṅkhŚr.]
karásna See under 1. kará.
karatasकरतस्kara—tas ind. from the hand, out of the hand.
karavatकरवत्kara—vat mfn. paying tribute.
karaṭinकरटिन्m. an elephant, [Subh.]
karabhīyaकरभीयmfn. tending camels, [Hcar.]
karabhakaकरभकm. N. of a messenger, [Śak.]
of a village, [Kathās.] (cf. karabha-grāma above.)
karabhorūकरभोरूf. a woman whose thighs resemble the trunk of an elephant, [Śak.]; [Naiṣ.] &c.
karadhṛtaकरधृतkara—dhṛta mfn. held or supported by the hand, [Megh.]
karaghāṭaकरघाटkara—ghāṭa m. a kind of poisonous tree, [Suśr. ii, 251, 14]; [252, 2.]
karaṇīyaकरणीयmfn. to be done or made or effected &c., [MBh.]; [R.] &c.
n. an affair, business, matter, [Ragh.]
karaṇatāकरणताkaraṇa—tā f. instrumentality, the state of being an instrument, [Kāś.] on [Pāṇ. ii, 3, 33.]
karaṇḍinकरण्डिन्m. (karaṇḍas tad-ākāro 'sty asya, [T.]) a fish, [L.]
karaśākhāकरशाखाkara—śākhā f. a finger, [L.]
karaśūkaकरशूकkara—śūka m. ‘hand-spicule’, a finger-nail, [L.]
karabālaकरबालkara—bāla See -vāla below.
karabakaकरबकkara—baka m. a species of bird, [VarBṛS.]
karaculiकरचुलिm. N. of a country, [Viddh.]
karadīkṛकरदीकृkara—°dī-√ kṛ to render tributary, [Hcar.]
karadviṣकरद्विष्kara—dviṣ m. pl. N. of a tribe or school, [TāṇḍyaBr. ii, 15, 4]; [iii, 6, 4.]
karahāraकरहारkara—hāra mfn. taking tribute, [BhP.]
karahāṭaकरहाटm. the tree Vangueria Spinosa, [Suśr.]
the fibrous root of a lotus, [L.]
N. of a region.
karahatiकरहतिkara—hati f. a blow with the hand.
karajālaकरजालkara—jāla n. a pencil of rays, a stream of light, [W.]
karakāyuकरकायुm. N. of a son of Dhṛtarāṣṭra (cf. kanakāyu), [MBh. i, 6982.]
karakaṭaकरकटkara—kaṭa m. an elephant's temple (cf. karaṭa)
Centropus Pyropterus, [Nigh.]
karakoṣaकरकोषkara—koṣa m. the hand hollowed to receive water (cf. -kalāśa.)
karalāyaकरलायNom. Ā. °yate, to become terrible, [Vās.]
karamālāकरमालाkara—mālā f. the hand used as a rosary (the joints of the fingers corresponding to the beads), [Tantras.] &c.
karamālaकरमालm. smoke (probably a corruption of khatamāla).
karambhādकरम्भाद्karambhā́d mfn. eating groats or gruel, [RV. vi, 56, 1.]
karambhinकरम्भिन्karambhín mfn. possessing gruel, [RV.]
karamarīकरमरीf. a prisoner, [L.]
karapālaकरपालkara—pāla ( kara-pāla; for 2. See p. 254, col. 3) m. ‘hand-protecting’, a sword, scymitar, [L.]
kara—pāla ( ; for 1. See p. 253, col. 2) m. chief tax-gatherer, [Pañcat.]
karapāliकरपालिkara—pāli m. a kind of sword, [L.]
karapuṭīकरपुटीkara—puṭī f. the hollow of the hand, [Śārṅg.]
karapuṭaकरपुटkara—puṭa m. joining the palms of the hands in token of respect, [W.]
the hands joined and hollowed to receive anything, [W.]
a box, chest with a lid, [MBh. xiv, 1928]
kararddhiकरर्द्धिkara—°rddhi f. (kara-ṛddhi) = -tālī above, [L.]
indication of luck by the hand, [T.]
f. a cymbal, [L.]
kararuhaकररुहkara—ruha m. ‘growing from the hand’, a finger-nail, [Śak.]; [Bhartṛ.] &c.
Unguis Odoratus, [L.]
karasādaकरसादkara—sāda ( kara-sāda; for 2. See p. 254, col. 3) m. languor of the hands, [Pañcat.]
kara—sāda ( kara-sāda; for 1. See p. 253, col. 3) m. the fading away of rays, [Pañcat.]
karatālaकरतालkara—tāla mf(I). a musical instrument, a cymbal, [L.]
kara—tāla n. beating time by clapping the hands, [Bālar.]
karatalāकरतलाkara—talā f. a knife, [Kathās.]
karatalaकरतलkara—tala m. the palm of the hand, [R.]; [Suśr.]; [BhP.] &c.
karatṛṇaकरतृणkara—tṛṇa n. Pandanus Odoratissimus, [Nigh.]
karatoyāकरतोयाkara—toyā f. N. of a river in the north-east of Bengal (said to have, originated from the water poured into the hand of Śiva at his marriage with Pārvati, and thrown by him on the ground), [MBh.]; [VP.]
karavālaकरवालkara—vāla m. a sword, scymitar, [MBh.]; [BhP.] &c. (cf. -pāla above)
a finger-nail, [L.]
karavāliकरवालिkara—vāli m. a kind of sword, [L.]
karavāriकरवारिkara—vāri n. water from the hand.
karavīkaकरवीकm. N. of a mountain.
karavīrāकरवीराkara—vīrā f. red arsenic, [L.]
karavīrīकरवीरीkara—vīrī f. a woman who has borne a son, a mother, [L.]
a good cow, [L.]
N. of Aditi, [T.]
karavīraकरवीरkara—vīra m. Oleander (Nerium Odorum), [MBh.]; [Suśr.]; [Mṛcch.]; [VarBṛS.]
a species of Soma, [Suśr. ii, 164, 15]
a sword, [L.]
a particular spell (for recovering a missile of mystic properties after its discharge), [R.]
the thumb
a cemetery, [L.]
N. of a Nāga, [MBh. i, 1557]
of a Daitya, [L.]
of a town on the river Veṇvā (founded by Padma-varṇa), [Hariv. 5230] (cf. kara-vīra-pura below)
of a town on the river Dṛṣadvatī (the residence of Candraśekhara), [KapS.]
of a mountain, [BhP.]
kara—vīra n. the flower of Oleander, [L.]
kara-vīra See p. 253, col. 3.
karaṭakaकरटकm. a crow, [L.]
N. of a jackal, [Pañcat.]; [Hit.] &c.
karaṃdhamaकरंधमkara—ṃ-dhama m. N. of two princes, [MBh.]; [VP.] &c.
karaṃdhayaकरंधयkara—ṃ-dhaya mfn. sucking the hand, [Vop.]
karaṅgaṇaकरङ्गण(v.l. for karāṅgaṇa) m. a market, fair, [W.]
karaṅkiṇīकरङ्किणीf. N. of a Yoginī, [Hcat.]
karaṇābdaकरणाब्दm. pl. the years used in astronomical calculations i.e. years of the Sāka era Comm. on [VarBṛS.]
karaṇāṭṭaकरणाट्टn. N. of a place.
karaṇatvaकरणत्वkaraṇa—tva n. instrumentality, mediate agency, [KapS.]
karaṇavatकरणवत्karaṇa—vat mfn. articulated, [TPrāt.]
karaṇḍakaकरण्डकmf(ikA). a basket, [Kathās.]
karaśuddhiकरशुद्धिkara—śuddhi f. cleansing the hands with fragrant flowers, [Tantras.]
karañjahaकरञ्जहkarañja—há mfn. pernicious to Karañja, [RV. x, 48, 8.]
karañjakaकरञ्जकmf(ikA). Pongamia Glabra, [MBh.]; [R.]; [Suśr.]
Verbesina Scandens, [L.]
karacchadāकरच्छदाkara—cchadā f. a species of tree (commonly called sindūra-puṣpī-vṛkṣa), [L.]
karacchadaकरच्छदkara—cchada m. Trophis Aspera, [Bhpr.]