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-).