Ved. I) cl. 2. P. 2. sg. kárṣi du. kṛthás pl. kṛthá; Ā. 2. sg. kṛṣé; impf. 2. and 3. sg. ákar, 3. sg. rarely ákat ([ŚBr. iii], [xi]) ; 3. du. ákartām; pl. ákarma, ákarta (also, [BhP. ix]), ákran (aor., according to [Pāṇ. iv, 2, 80], [Kāś.]); Ā. ákri ([RV. x, 159, 4] and [174, 4]), ákṛthās ([RV. v, 30, 8]), ákṛta ([RV.]); akrātām ([ŚāṅkhŚr.]), ákrata ([RV.]; [AV.]) : Impv. kṛdhí (also, [MBh. i, 5141] and [BhP. viii]), kṛtám, kṛtá; Ā. kṛṣvá, kṛdhvám; Subj. 2. and 3. sg. kar pl. kárma, kárta and kartana, kran; Ā. 3. sg. kṛta ([RV. ix, 69, 5]), 3. pl. kránta ([RV. i, 141, 3]) : Pot. kriyāma ([RV. x, 32, 9]); pr. p. P. (nom. pl.) krántas Ā. krāṇá. II) cl. 1. P. kárasi, kárati, kárathas, káratas, káranti; Ā. kárase, kárate, kárāmahe: impf. ákaram, ákaras, ákarat (aor., according to [Pāṇ. iii, 1, 59]) : Impv. kára, káratam, káratām: Subj. káram, kárāṇi, káras, kárat, kárāma, káran; Ā. karāmahai; pr. p. f. kárantī ([Naigh.]) III) cl. 5. P. kṛṇómi, °ṇóṣi, °ṇóti, kṛṇuthás, kṛṇmás and kṛṇmasi, kṛṇuthá, kṛṇvánti; Ā. kṛṇvé, kṛṇuṣé, kṛṇuté, 3. du. kṛṇvaíte ([RV. vi, 25, 4]); pl. kṛṇmáhe, kṛṇváte: impf. ákṛṇos, ákṛṇot, ákṛṇutam, ákṛṇuta and °ṇotana ([RV. i, 110, 8]), ákṛṇvan; Ā. 3. sg. ákṛṇuta pl. ákṛṇudhvam, ákṛṇvata: Impv. kṛṇú or kṛṇuhí or kṛṇutā́t, kṛṇótu, kṛṇutám, kṛṇutā́m, 2. pl. kṛṇutá or kṛṇóta or kṛṇótana, 3. pl. kṛṇvántu; Ā. kṛṇuṣvá, kṛṇutā́m, kṛṇvā́thām, kṛṇudhvám: Subj. kṛṇávas, °ṇávat or °ṇávāt, kṛṇávāva, °ṇávāma, °ṇávātha, °ṇávatha, °ṇávan; Ā. kṛṇávai (once °ṇavā, [RV. x, 95, 2]), kṛṇavase (also, [ŚvetUp. ii, 7] v.l. °ṇvase), kṛṇavate, kṛṇávāvahai, kṛṇávāmahai, 3. pl. kṛṇávanta ([RV.]) or kṛṇavante or kṛṇvata ([RV.]) : Pot. Ā. kṛṇvītá; pr. p. P. kṛṇvát (f. °vatī́) Ā. kṛṇvāṇá. IV) cl. 8. (this is the usual formation in the Brāhmaṇas; Sūtras, and in classical Sanskṛt) P. karómi (ep. kurmi, [MBh. iii, 10943]; [R. ii, 12, 33]); kurvás, kuruthás, kurutás, kurmás [kulmas in an interpolation after, [RV. x, 128]], kuruthá, kurvánti; Ā. kurvé, &c., 3. pl. kurváte ([Pāṇ. vi, 4, 108]-[110]) : impf. akaravam, akaros, akarot, akurva, &c.; Ā. 3. sg. akuruta pl. akurvata: Impv. kuru, karotu (in the earlier language 2. and 3. sg. kurutāt, 3. sg. also, [BhP. vi, 4, 34]), kuruta or kurutana ([Nir. iv, 7]); Ā. kuruṣva, kurudhvam, kurvátām: Subj. karavāṇi, karavas, °vāt, °vāva or °vāvas ([Pāṇ. iii, 4, 98], [Kāś.]), °vāma or °vāmas ([ib.]), °vātha, °van; Ā. karavai, kuruthās, karavāvahai ([TUp.]; °he, [MBh. iii, 10762]), karavaithe, °vaite ([Pāṇ. iii, 4, 95], [Kāś.]), °vāmahai (°he, [MBh.]; [R. i, 18, 12]) : Pot. P. kuryām Ā. kurvīya ([Pāṇ. vi, 4, 109] and [110]); pr. p. P. kurvát (f. °vatī́); Ā. kurvāṇá: perf. P. cakā́ra, cakártha, cakṛvá, cakṛmá, cakrá ([Pāṇ. vii, 2, 13]); Ā. cakré, cakriré; p. cakṛvas (acc. cakrúṣam, [RV. x, 137, 1]); Ā. cakrāṇa ([Vop.]) : 2nd fut. kariṣyáti; Subj. 2. sg. kariṣyā́s ([RV. iv, 30, 23]); 1st fut. kártā: Prec. kriyāsam: aor. P. Ved. cakaram ([RV. iv, 42, 6]), acakrat ([RV. iv, 18, 12]), ácakriran ([RV. viii, 6, 20]); Ā. 1. sg. kṛske ([RV. x, 49, 7]); Class. akārṣīt ([Pāṇ. vii, 2, 1], [Kāś.]; once akāraṣīt, [BhP. i, 10, 1]); Pass. aor. reflex. akāri and akṛta ([Pāṇ. iii, 1, 62], [Kāś.]) : Inf. kártum, Ved. kártave, kártavaí, kártos (see ss.vv.); ind.p. kṛtvā́, Ved. kṛtvī́ [[RV.]] and kṛtvā́ya [[TS. iv], [v]]; to do, make, perform, accomplish, cause, effect, prepare, undertake, [RV.] &c.; to do anything for the advantage or injury of another (gen. or loc.), [MBh.]; [R.] &c.; to execute, carry out (as an order or command), [ib.]; to manufacture, prepare, work at, elaborate, build, [ib.]; to form or construct one thing out of another (abl. or instr.), [R. i, 2, 44]; [Hit.] &c.; to employ, use, make use of (instr.), [ŚvetUp.]; [Mn. x, 91]; [MBh.] &c.; to compose, describe, [R. i]; to cultivate, [Yājñ. ii, 158] (cf. [Mn. x, 114]); to accomplish any period, bring to completion, spend (e.g. varṣāṇi daśa cakruḥ, ‘they spent ten years’, [MBh. xv, 6]; kṣaṇaṃ kuru, ‘wait a moment’, [MBh.]; cf. kṛtakṣaṇa); to place, put, lay, bring, lead, take hold of (acc. or loc. or instr., e.g. ardháṃ-√ kṛ, to take to one's own side or party, cause to share in (gen.; see 2. ardhá); haste or pāṇau-√ kṛ, to take by the hand, marry, [Pāṇ. i, 4, 77]; hṛdayena-√ kṛ, to place in one's heart, love, [Mṛcch.]; hṛdi-√ kṛ, to take to heart, mind, think over, consider, [Rājat. v, 313]; manasi-√ kṛ id., [R. ii, 64, 8]; [Hcar.]; to determine, purpose [ind.p. °si-kṛtvā or °si-kṛtya] [Pāṇ. i, 4, 75]; vaśe-√ kṛ, to place in subjection, become master of [Mn. ii, 100]); to direct the thoughts, mind, &c. (mánas [[RV.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.] or buddhim [[Nal. xxvi, 10]] or matim [[MBh.]; [R.]] or bhāvam [[ib.]], &c.) towards any object, turn the attention to, resolve upon, determine on (loc. dat. inf., or a sentence with iti, e.g. mā śoke manaḥ kṛthāḥ, do not turn your mind to grief, [Nal. xiv, 22] ; gamanāya matiṃ cakre, he resolved upon going, [R. i, 9, 55]; alābuṃ samutsraṣṭuṃ manaś cakre, he resolved to create a gourd, [MBh. iii, 8844]; draṣṭā tavāsmīti matiṃ cakāra, he determined to see him, [MBh. iii, 12335]); to think of (acc.), [R. i, 21, 14]; to make, render (with two acc., e.g. ādityaṃ kāṣṭhām akurvata, they made the sun their goal, [AitBr. iv, 7]), [RV.]; [ŚBr.] &c.; to procure for another, bestow, grant (with gen. or loc.), [RV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.] &c.; Ā. to procure for one's self, appropriate, assume, [ŚBr.]; [BṛĀrUp.]; [Mn. vii, 10] &c.; to give aid, help any one to get anything (dat.), [RV.]; [VS.]; to make liable to (dat.), [RV. iii, 41, 6]; [ŚBr. iv]; to injure, violate (e.g. kanyāṃ-√ kṛ, to violate a maiden), [Mn. viii, 367] and [369]; to appoint, institute, [ChUp.]; [Mn.]; to give an order, commission, [Mn.]; [R. ii, 2, 8]; to cause to get rid of, free from (abl. or -tas), [Pāṇ. v, 4, 49], [Kāś.]; to begin (e.g. cakre śobhayitum purīm, they began to adorn the city), [R. ii, 6, 10]; to proceed, act, put in practice, [VS.]; [ŚBr.]; [AitBr.] &c.; to worship, sacrifice, [RV.]; [ŚBr.]; [Mn. iii, 210]; to make a sound (svaram or śabdam, [MBh. iii, 11718]; [Pāṇ. iv, 4, 34]; [Hit.]), utter, pronounce (often ifc. with the sounds phaṭ, phut, bhāṇ, váṣaṭ, svadhā́, svā́hā, hiṃ), pronounce any formula ([Mn. ii, 74] and [xi, 33]); (with numeral adverbs ending in dhā) to divide, separate or break up into parts (e.g. dvidhā-√ kṛ, to divide into two parts, ind.p. dvidhā kṛtvā or dvidhā-kṛtya or -kāram, [Pāṇ. iii, 4, 62]; sahasradhā-√ kṛ, to break into a thousand pieces); (with adverbs ending in vat) to make like or similar, consider equivalent (e.g. rājyaṃ tṛṇa-vat kṛtvā, valuing the kingdom like a straw, [Vet.]); (with adverbs ending in sāt) to reduce anything to, cause to become, make subject (see ātma-sāt, bhasma-sāt), [Pāṇ. v, 4, 52 ff.] The above senses of √ may be variously modified or almost infinitely extended according to the noun with which this root is connected, as in the following examples: sakhyaṃ-√ kṛ, to contract friendship with; pūjāṃ-√ kṛ, to honour; rājyaṃ-√ kṛ, to reign; snehaṃ-√ kṛ, to show affection; ājñāṃ or nideśaṃ or śāsanaṃ or kāmaṃ or yācanāṃ or vacaḥ or vacanaṃ or vākyaṃ-√ kṛ, to perform any one's command or wish or request &c.; dharmaṃ-√ kṛ, to do one's duty, [Mn. vii, 136]; nakhāni-√ kṛ, ‘to clean one's nails’, see kṛta-nakha; udakaṃ [[Mn.]; [Yājñ.]; [R.]; [Daś.]] or salilaṃ [[R. i, 44, 49]] √ , to offer a libation of water to the dead; to perform ablutions; astrāṇi-√ kṛ, to practise the use of weapons, [MBh. iii, 11824]; darduraṃ-√ kṛ, to breathe the flute, [Pāṇ. iv, 4, 34]; daṇḍaṃ-√ kṛ, to inflict punishment &c., [Vet.]; kālaṃ-√ kṛ, to bring one's time to an end i.e. to die; ciraṃ-√ kṛ, to be long in doing anything, delay; manasā (for °si See above) √ , to place in one's mind, think of, meditate, [MBh.]; śirasā-√ kṛ, to place on the head; mūrdhnā-√ kṛ, to place on one's head, obey, honour. Very rarely in Veda ([AV. xviii, 2, 27]), but commonly in the Brāhmaṇas, Sūtras, and especially in classical Sanskṛt the perf. forms cakāra and cakre auxiliarily used to form the periphrastical perfect of verbs, especially of causatives, e.g. āsāṃ cakre, ‘he sat down’; gamayā́ṃ cakāra, ‘he caused to go’ [see, [Pāṇ. iii, 1, 40]; in Veda some other forms of √ are used in a similar way, viz. pr. karoti, [ŚāṅkhŚr.]; impf. akar, [MaitrS.] & [Kāṭh.]; 3. pl. akran, [MaitrS.] & [TBr.]; Prec. kriyāt, [MaitrS.] (see [Pāṇ. iii, 1, 42]); according to [Pāṇ. iii, 1, 41], also karotu with √ vid]. Caus. kārayati, °te, to cause to act or do, cause another to perform, have anything made or done by another (double acc., instr. and acc. [see [Pāṇ. i, 4, 53]], e.g. sabhāṃ kāritavān, he caused an assembly to be made, [Hit.]; rāja-darśanaṃ māṃ kāraya, cause me to have an audience of the king; vāṇijyaṃ kārayed vaiśyam, he ought to cause the Vaiśya to engage in trade, [Mn. viii, 410]; na śakṣyāmi kiṃcit kārayituṃ tvayā, I shall not be able to have anything done by thee, [MBh. ii, 6]); to cause to manufacture or form or cultivate, [Lāṭy.]; [Yājñ. ii, 158]; [MBh.] &c.; to cause to place or put, have anything placed, put upon, &c. (e.g. taṃ citrapaṭaṃ vāsa-gṛhe bhittāv akārayat, he had the picture placed on the wall in his house, [Kathās. v, 30]), [Mn. viii, 251]. Sometimes the Caus. of √ is used for the simple verb or without a causal signification (e.g. padaṃ kārayati, he pronounces a word, [Pāṇ. i, 3, 71], [Kāś.] ; mithyā k°, he pronounces wrongly, [ib.]; kaikeyīm anu rājānaṃ kāraya, treat or deal with Kaikeyī as the king does, [R. ii, 58, 16]) : Desid. cíkīrṣati (aor. 2. sg. acikīrṣīs, [ŚBr. iii]), ep. also °te, to wish to make or do, intend to do, design, intend, begin, strive after, [AV. xii, 4, 19]; [ŚBr.]; [KātyŚr.]; [Mn.] &c.; to wish to sacrifice or worship, [AV. v, 8, 3] : Intens. 3. pl. karikrati (pr. p. kárikrat See [Naigh. ii, 1] and [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 65]), to do repeatedly, [RV.]; [AV.]; [TS.]; Class. carkarti or carikarti or carīkarti [[Pāṇ. vii, 4, 92], [Kāś.]], also carkarīti or carikarīti or carīkarīti or cekrīyate [ib., Sch.; [Vop.]];
cl. 4. P. kṛ́śyati (perf. cakárśa; ind.p. kṛśitvā or karś°, [Pāṇ. i, 2, 25]), to become lean or thin, become emaciated or feeble, [AV. xii, 3, 16]; [ŚBr. xi]; to cause (the moon) to wane, [Dhātup. xxvi, 117] : Caus. karśayati, to make thin or lean, attenuate, emaciate, keep short of food, [Āp.]; [Bhag.]; [Suśr.] &c.; to lessen, diminish, [Kāvyād. ii, 109];
kṛ́p f. (only instr. kṛpā́) beautiful appearance, beauty, splendour, [RV.]; [VS. iv, 25.]
cl. 6. Ā. kṛpate (impf. akṛ-panta; aor. 3. pl. akṛpran and cakṛpánta, 3. sg. akrapiṣṭa; pr. p. kṛ́pamāṇa), to mourn, long for (acc.), [RV.]; to lament, implore, [RV.]; [AV. v, 19, 3] : cl. 10. P. kṛpayati (impf. akṛpayat; p. kṛpáyat gen. sg. m. kṛpayatás, [RV. viii, 46, 16]), to mourn, grieve, lament (with acc.), [RV.]; to pity, [BhP. viii, 7, 40]; to be weak, [Dhātup. xxxv, 17] (cf. kṛpāya and √ krap.)
cl. 7. P. kṛṇátti (impf. 3. pl. ákṛntan), to twist threads, spin, [AV.]; [TS. ii]; [ŚBr. iii]; [MaitrS.] = [TāṇḍyaBr.] ([Nir. iii, 21]); to wind (as a snake), [AV. i, 27, 2] (pr. p. f. kṛntatī́); to surround, encompass, attire, [Dhātup. xxix, 10.]
cl. 1. P. kárṣati, rarely Ā. °te (perf. cakarṣa, 2. sg. °ṣitha, [Pāṇ. vii, 2, 62], [Kāś.]; fut. karkṣyati or krakṣy°; kṛṣiṣy°, [Divyāv. xvii]; karṣṭā or kraṣṭā, [Pāṇ. vii, 2, 10], [Kāś.]; aor. akṛkṣat [or akārkṣīt] or akrākṣīt, [iii, 1, 44], Vārtt. 7; inf. kraṣṭum), to draw, draw to one's self, drag, pull, drag away, tear, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.] &c.; to lead or conduct (as an army), [MBh.]; to bend (a bow), [Ragh. v, 50]; to draw into one's power, become master of, overpower, [Mn. ii, 215]; [MBh. iv, 20]; [R.]; [Pañcat.]; to obtain, [Mn. iii, 66]; to take away anything (acc.) from any one (acc.), [Vop. v, 8]; to draw or make furrows, plough, [RV. viii, 22, 6]; [Lāṭy. v, 1, 4]; [Vait.] (Ā.), [R. iii, 4, 12]; [BhP.] (ind.p. kṛṣṭvā) : cl. 6. P. Ā. kṛṣáti, °te (p. kṛṣát), to draw or make furrows, plough, [RV.]; [AV.]; [TS.]; [ŚBr.] &c.; Ā. to obtain by ploughing, [AV. xii, 2, 16]; to travel over, [MBh. iii, 16021] : Caus. karṣayati, to draw, drag, [RV. x, 119, 11] (aor. 1. sg. acikṛṣam), [R.]; [Mṛcch.]; to draw or tear out, [MBh. iii, 2307]; to pull to and fro, cause pain, torture, torment, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; ‘to plough’, see karṣita: Intens. (pr. p. and Subj. 3. sg. cárkṛṣat; impf. 3. pl. acarkṛṣur) to plough, [RV.]; [AV.]; carīkṛṣyate or Ved. karīk°, to plough repeatedly, [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 64];
kṛ́pa m. N. of a man (described as a friend of Indra), [RV. viii, 3, 12] and [4, 2]
kṛ́pa mf(I). N. of the son and daughter of the sage Śaradvat (who performed severe penance; the jealous Indra therefore sent a nymph to tempt him, but without success; however, twin sons were born to the sage in a clump of grass [śara-stambe], who were found by king Śāntanu and out of pity [kṛpā] taken home and reared; the daughter, Kṛpī, married Droṇa, and had by him a son called Aśvatthāman; the son, Kṛpa, became one of the council at Hastināpura, and is sometimes called Gautama, sometimes Śāradvata; according to [Hariv.] & [VP.], Kṛpa and Kṛpī were only distant descendants of Śaradvat; according to others, Kṛpa = Vyāsa or = a son of Kṛṣṇa), [MBh.] &c.
obtained, gained, acquired, placed at hand, [AV. iii, 24, 5]
well done, proper, good, [ŚBr. iv]
cultivated, [Mn. x, 114]
appointed (as a duty), [Yājñ. ii, 186]
relating or referring to, [Yājñ. ii, 210]
kṛtá (as), m. N. of one of the Viśve Devās, [MBh. xiii, 4356]
of a son of Vasu-deva, [BhP. ix, 24, 45]
of a son of Saṃnati and pupil of Hiraṇya-nābha, [Hariv. 1080]; [BhP. xii, 6, 80]
of a son of Kṛta-ratha and father of Vibudha, [VP.]
of a son of Jaya and father of Haryavana, [BhP. ix, 17, 17]
of a son of Cyavana and father of Upari-cara, [VāyuP.]
kṛtá (am), n. (with saha or with instr.) ‘done with’, away with, enough of, no need of, &c. (e.g. kṛtaṃ saṃdehena, away with doubt, [Śak.]; kṛtaṃ parihāsena, enough of joking, [ib.])
service done, kind action, benefit (cf. kṛta-jña and -ghna), [MBh. v, 1692]; [Pañcat.]
magic, sorcery, [SāmavBr.]
consequence, result, [L.]
aim, [Vop. i, 2]
stake at a game, [RV.]; [AV.]
prize or booty gained in battle, [ib.]
N. of the die or of the side of a die marked with four points or dots (this is the lucky or winning die), [VS. xxx, 18]; [TS.]; [ŚBr.] &c.
(also the collective N. of the four dice in opposition to the fifth die called kali Comm. on [VS. x, 28])
(hence) the number ‘four’, [VarBṛS.]; [Sūryas.]
N. of the first of the four ages of the world (also called satya or ‘the golden age’, comprehending together with the morning and evening dawn 4800 years of men [[Mn.]; [MBh.]; [Hariv.]] or according to the later conception [[BhP.] &c. Comm. on [Mn. i, 69]] 4800 years of the gods or 1728000 years of men)
kṛté ind. on account of, for the sake of, for (with gen. or ifc., e.g. mama kṛte or mat-kṛte, on my account, for me), [Yājñ. i, 216]; [MBh.]; [R.] &c.
kṛṣí is, f. (exceptionally pl. [VS. iv, 10]; [Subh.]) ploughing, cultivation of the soil, agriculture (one of the Vṛttis of a Vaiśya, [Viṣṇ.]), [RV.]; [VS.] &c.
the cultivation of the soil personified, [ŚBr. xi]
N. of several plants (Piper longum, [L.]; the Indigo plant, [L.]; a grape, [L.]; a Punar-navā with dark blossoms, [L.]; Gmelina arborea, [L.]; Nigella indica, [L.]; Sinapis ramosa, [L.]; Vernonia anthelminthica, [L.]; = kākolī, [L.]; a sort of Sārivā, [L.]), [Suśr.]
a kind of perfume (= parpaṭī), [Bhpr.]
N. of Draupadī, [MBh.]
of Durgā, [MBh. iv, 184]
of one of the seven tongues of fire, [L.], Sch.
of one of the mothers in Skanda's retinue, [MBh. ix, 2640]
of a Yoginī, [Hcat.]
(with or without gaṅgā) N. of the river Kistna, [MBh. xiii, 4888]; [PadmaP.]; [NārP.]
kṛṣṇá mf(A/)n. black, dark, dark-blue (opposed to śvetá, śuklá, róhita, and aruṇá), [RV.]; [AV.] &c.
wicked, evil, [Vop. vii, 82]
kṛṣṇá (as), m. (with or without pakṣa) the dark half of the lunar month from full to new moon, [Mn.]; [Yājñ.]; [Bhag.]; [Suśr.]
the fourth or Kali-yuga, [L.]
(kṛ́ṣṇas), black (the colour) or dark-blue (which is often confounded with black by the Hindūs), [L.]
the antelope, [RV. x, 94, 5]; [VS.]; [TS.]; [ŚBr.]; [BhP.]
a kind of animal feeding on carrion, [AV. xi, 2, 2] (kṛṣṇá)
the Indian cuckoo or Kokila (cf. [R. ii, 52, 2]), [L.]
a crow, [L.]
Carissa Carandas, [L.]
N. of one of the poets of the [RV.] (descended from Aṅgiras), [RV. viii, 85, 3] and [4]; [ŚāṅkhBr. xxx, 9]
(a son of Devakī and pupil of Ghora Āṅgirasa), [ChUp. iii, 17, 6]
N. of a celebrated Avatār of the god Viṣṇu, or sometimes identified with Viṣṇu himself [[MBh. v, 2563]; [xiv, 1589 ff.]; [Hariv. 2359] &c.] as distinct from his ten Avatārs or incarnations (in the earlier legends he appears as a great hero and teacher [[MBh.]; [Bhag.]]; in the more recent he is deified, and is often represented as a young and amorous shepherd with flowing hair and a flute in his hand; the following are a few particulars of his birth and history as related in [Hariv. 3304 ff.] and in the Purāṇas &c.: Vasu-deva, who was a descendant of Yadu and Yayāti, had two wives, Rohiṇī and Devakī; the latter had eight sons of whom the eighth was Kṛṣṇa; Kaṃsa, king of Mathurā and cousin of Devakī, was informed by a prediction that one of these sons would kill him; he therefore kept Vasu-deva and his wife in confinement, and slew their first six children; the seventh was Balarāma who was saved by being abstracted from the womb of Devakī and transferred to that of Rohiṇī; the eighth was Kṛṣṇa who was born with black skin and a peculiar mark on his breast; his father Vasu-deva managed to escape from Mathurā with the child, and favoured by the gods found a herdsman named Nanda whose wife Yaśo-dā had just been delivered of a son which Vasu-deva conveyed to Devakī after substituting his own in its place. Nanda with his wife Yaśo-dā took the infant Kṛṣṇa and settled first in Gokula or Vraja, and afterwards in Vṛndāvana, where Kṛṣṇa and Bala-rāma grew up together, roaming in the woods and joining in the sports of the herdsmen's sons ; Kṛṣṇa as a youth contested the sovereignty of Indra, and was victorious over that god, who descended from heaven to praise Kṛṣṇa, and made him lord over the cattle [[Hariv. 3787 ff.]; [7456 ff.]; [VP.]]; Kṛṣṇa is described as sporting constantly with the Gopīs or shepherdesses [[Hariv. 4078 ff.]; [8301 ff.]; [VP.]; [Gīt.]] of whom a thousand became his wives, though only eight are specified, Rādhā being the favourite [[Hariv. 6694 ff.]; [9177 ff.]; [VP.]]; Kṛṣṇa built and fortified a city called Dvārakā in Gujarāt, and thither transported the inhabitants of Mathurā after killing Kaṃsa; Kṛṣṇa had various wives besides the Gopīs, and by Rukmiṇī had a son Pradyumna who is usually identified with Kāma-deva; with Jains, Kṛṣṇa is one of the nine black Vasu-devas; with Buddhists he is the chief of the black demons, who are the enemies of Buddha and the white demons)
N. of an attendant in Skanda's retinue, [MBh. ix, 2559]
of an Asura, [Hariv. 12936]; [Sāy.] on [RV. i, 101, 1]
of a king of the Nāgas, [MBh. ii, 360]; [Divyāv. ii]
of Arjuna (the most renowned of the Pāṇḍu princes, so named apparently from his colour as a child), [MBh. iv, 1389]
of Vyāsa, [MBh.]; [Hariv. 11089]
of Hārita See -hārita
of a son of Śuka by Pīvarī (teacher of the Yoga), [Hariv. 980 ff.]
of a pupil of Bharad-vāja, [Kathās. vii, 15]
of Havir-dhāna, [Hariv. 83]; [VP.]; [BhP. iv, 24, 8]
of a son of Arjuna, [Hariv. 1892]
of an adopted son of A-samañjas, [2039]
of a chief of the Andhras, [VP.]
of the author of a Comm. on the [MBh.]
of a poet
of the author of a Comm. on the Dayā-bhāga
of the son of Keśavārka and grandson of Jayāditya
of the father of Tāna-bhaṭṭa and uncle of Raṅga-nātha
of the father of Dāmodara and uncle of Malhaṇa
of the father of Prabhūjīka and uncle of Vidyā-dhara
of the father of Madana
of the grammarian Rāma-candra
of the son of Vāruṇendra and father of Lakṣmaṇa
of the father of Hīra-bhaṭṭa (author of the Comm. called Carakabhāṣya, and of the work Sāhitya-sudhā-samudra)
N. of a hell, [VP.]
kṛṣṇá (śs), m. pl. N. of the Śūdras in Śālmala-dvīpa, [VP.]
kṛṣṇá (ám), n. blackness, darkness, [i, 123, 1] and [9]
kṛṣṇá m. the black part of the eye, [ŚBr. x], [xii], [xiii], [xiv]; [Suśr.]
the black spots in the moon, [TBr. i, 2, 1, 2]
a kind of demon or spirit of darkness, [RV. iv, 16, 13]
black pepper, [L.]
black Agallochum, [L.]
iron, [L.]
lead, [L.]
antimony, [L.]
blue vitriol, [L.]
[cf. kā́rṣṇa, &c.; cf. also Russ. černyi, ‘black’.]
Nom. P. °ṣṇati, to behave or act like Kṛṣṇa, [Vop. xxi, 7.]
kṛṣṭí ayas, f. pl. (once only sg. [RV. iv, 42, 1]) men, races of men (sometimes with the epithet mā́nuṣīs [[i, 59, 5] and [vi, 18, 2]] or nā́huṣīs [[vi, 46, 7]] or mānavī́s [[AV. iii, 24, 3]]; cf. carṣaṇí; originally the word may have meant cultivated ground, then an inhabited land, next its inhabitants, and lastly any race of men; Indra and Agni have the N. rā́jā or pátiḥ kṛṣṭīnā́m; the term páñca kṛṣṭáyas, perhaps originally designating the five Āryan tribes of the Yadus, Turvaśas, Druhyus, Anus, and Pūrus, comprehends the whole human race, not only the Āryan tribes), [RV.]; [AV.]
kṛṣṭí (is), f. ploughing, cultivating the soil, [L.]
attracting, drawing, [L.]
‘harvest’, the consequences (karma-k°), [Naiṣ. vi, 100]
kṛṣṭí (is), m. a teacher, learned man or Paṇḍit, [Hariv. 3588]; [SkandaP.]
kṛśā́nu m. (fr. √ kṛś for kṛṣ?), ‘bending the bow’, N. applied to a good archer (connected with ástṛ, ‘an archer’, though sometimes used alone; Kṛśānu, according to some, is a divine being, in character like Rudra or identified with him; armed with the lightning he defends the ‘heavenly’ Soma from the hawk, who tries to steal and bear it from heaven to earth), [RV.]; [VS. iv, 27]; [AitBr. iii, 26]
N. of Agni or fire, [VS. v, 32]; [ŚāṅkhŚr. vi, 12, 3]
kṛcchrá mf(A)n. (perhaps fr. √ kṛś, and connected with kaṣṭa), causing trouble or pain, painful, attended with pain or labour, [MBh.]; [R.]; [Pañcat.]; [Suśr.]
being in a difficult or painful situation, [R. ii, 78, 14]
bad, evil, wicked, [W.]
kṛcchrá (as, am), m. n. difficulty, trouble, labour, hardship, calamity, pain, danger (often ifc., e.g. vana-vāsak°, the difficulties of living in a forest; mūtra-k°, q.v.; artha-kṛcchreṣu, in difficulties, in a miserable situation, [MBh. iii, 65]; [Nal. xv, 3]; prāṇakṛcchra, danger of life, [MBh. ii, 6]; [BhP.]), [RV. x, 52, 4]; [Nir.]; [AitBr.] &c.
m. ([Pāṇ. viii, 3, 59], Vārtt. 1; often spelt kṛśara) a dish consisting of sesamum and grain (mixture of rice and peas with a few spices), [ṢaḍvBr. v, 2]; [Kauś.]; [ĀśvGṛ.]; [Gobh.]; [Mn.] &c.