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car

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.]