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karṣaकर्षm. (√ kṛṣ), the act of drawing, dragging, [Pāṇ.]
(with and without halasya) ploughing, agriculture, [Āp.]; [Yājñ. ii, 217]
‘anything scratched off’, see kṣāma-karṣa-miśrá
m. n. a weight of gold or silver (= 16 Māṣas = 80 Rettis = 1/4 Pala = 1/400 of a Tulā = about 176 grains troy; in common use 8 Rettis are given to the Māṣa, and the Karṣa is then about 280 grains troy), [Suśr.]; [VarBṛS.] &c.
Terminalia Bellerica (also called akṣa, q.v.), [L.]
a boat, [L.]
karṣaṇīकर्षणीf. N. of a plant (= kṣīriṇī), [L.]
karṣaṇaकर्षणmfn. pulling to and fro, dragging, tormenting, vexing (v.l. karśana), [MBh.]; [R.] &c.
extending (in time), [APrāt.]
the act of drawing or dragging near, [Śak.] (v.l.)
drawing out, pulling off
tugging, pulling (cf. keśa-k°), drawing to and fro, removing, hurting, injuring, tormenting, [Mn. vii, 112]; [MBh.]; [Suśr.] &c.
drawing back, bending (a bow), [Ragh. xi, 46] (cf. dhanuṣ-k°)
prolonging (a sound), [SaṃhUp.]
ploughing, cultivating the ground, [Mn. iv, 5]; [MBh.]; [BhP.]
cultivated land, [MBh. iii, 10082]
erroneous for karśana, q.v., [Car.]
karṣaṇiकर्षणिf. an unchaste woman (‘attracting men’, [BRD.]; erroneous for dharṣaṇi, [T.]), [L.]
karṣakaकर्षकmfn. pulling to and fro, dragging, tormenting, vexing, [AgP.]
ploughing, one who ploughs or lives by tillage, a husbandman, [Gaut.]; [MBh.]; [Yājñ.] &c.
karṣaphalāकर्षफलाkarṣa—phalā f. Emblica officinalis, [L.]
karṣaphalaकर्षफलkarṣa—phala m. Terminalia Bellerica, [L.]
karṣaṇīyaकर्षणीयmfn. to be drawn or pulled &c.
n. (?) a kind of defensive weapon, [Hariv. 14459.]