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kāma

&c. See s.v.

kā́ma m. (fr. √ 2. kam; once kāmá, [VS. xx, 60]), wish, desire, longing (kāmo me bhuñjīta bhavān, my wish is that you should eat, [Pāṇ. iii, 3, 153]), desire for, longing after (gen. dat., or loc.), love, affection, object of desire or of love or of pleasure, [RV.]; [VS.]; [TS.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [MBh.]; [R.] &c.

pleasure, enjoyment

love, especially sexual love or sensuality

Love or Desire personified, [AV. ix], [xii], [xix] (cf. [RV. x, 129, 4]), [VS.]; [PārGṛ.]

N. of the god of love, [AV. iii, 25, 1]; [MBh.]; [Lalit.]

(represented as son of Dharma and husband of Rati [[MBh. i, 2596 ff.]; [Hariv.]; [VP.]]; or as a son of Brahmā, [VP.]; or sometimes of Saṃkalpa, [BhP. vi, 6, 10]; cf. kāma-deva)

N. of Agni, [SV. ii, 8, 2, 19, 3]; [AV.]; [TS.]; [KātyŚr.]; [ŚāṅkhŚr.]

of Viṣṇu, [Gal.]

of Baladeva (cf. kāma-pāla), [L.]

a stake in gambling, [Nār. xvi, 9]

a species of mango tree (= mahā-rāja-cūta), [L.]

N. of a metre consisting of four lines of two long syllables each

a kind of bean, [L.]

a particular form of temple, [Hcat.]

N. of several men

kā́ma n. object of desire, [L.]

semen virile, [L.]

N. of a Tīrtha, [MBh. iii, 5047]

kāmá mfn. wishing, desiring, [RV. ix, 113, 11]

kā́ma n. (ifc.) desirous of, desiring, having a desire or intention (cf. go-k°, dharma-k°; frequently with inf. in tu cf. tyaktu-k°.)