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kāya

kāyá mf(I)n. (fr. 3. ka, [Pāṇ. iv, 2, 25]), relating or devoted to the god Ka (Prajā-pati, [RV. x, 121]), [VS.]; [TS.]; [ŚBr.] &c.;

kāyá (as), m. one of the eight modes of marriage (= Prājāpatya See vivāha), [Mn. iii, 38]; [Yājñ. i, 60]

kāyá (am), n. part of the hand sacred to Prajā-pati, the root of the little finger, [Mn. ii, 58] and [59.]

m. (√ ci, [Pāṇ. iii, 3, 41]), the body, [KātyŚr.]; [Mn.] &c.

the trunk of a tree, [R.]

the body of a lute (the whole except the wires), [L.]

assemblage, collection, multitude, [SaddhP.]

principal, capital, [Nār.]; [Bṛh.]

a house, habitation, [L.]

a butt, mark, [L.]

any object to be attained, [L.]

natural temperament, [L.]