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kāraka

kā́raka mf(ikA)n. (generally ifc.) making, doing, acting, who or what does or produces or creates, [MBh.] &c. (cf. siṃha-k°, kṛtsna-k°, śilpa-k)

intending to act or do, [Pāṇ. ii, 3, 70], Sch.

(am), n. ‘instrumental in bringing about the action denoted by a verb (= kriyā-hetu or -nimitta)’, the notion of a case (but not co-extensive with the term case; there are six such relations accord. to [Pāṇ.], viz. karman, karaṇa, kartṛ, sampradāna, apādāna, adhikaraṇa, qq.vv. The idea of the genitive case is not considered a , because it ordinarily expresses the relation of two nouns to each other, but not the relation of a noun and verb).

n. hail-water, [L.]