kárṇa m. (√ kṛt, [Nir.]; √ 1. kṝ, [Uṇ. iii, 10]), the ear, [RV.]; [AV.]; [TS.]; [Suśr.] (ápi kárṇe, behind the ear or back, from behind, [RV.] [cf. apikarṇá]; karṇe, [in dram.] into the ear, in a low voice, aside, [Mṛcch.]; [Mālav.]; karṇaṃ √ dā, to give ear to, listen to, [Śak.]; [Mṛcch.]; karṇam ā-√ gam, to come to one's ear, become known to, [Ragh. i, 9])
the handle or ear of a vessel, [RV. viii, 72, 12]; [ŚBr. ix]; [KātyŚr.] &c.
the helm or rudder of a ship, [R.]
(in geom.) the hypothenuse of a triangle or the diagonal of a tetragon, [Hcat.] &c.
the diameter of a circle, [Sūryas.]
(in prosody) a spondee
Cassia Fistula, [L.]
Calotropis Gigantea, [L.]
N. of a king of Aṅga (and elder brother by the mother's side of the Pāṇḍu princes, being the son of the god Sūrya by Pṛthā or Kuntī, before her marriage with Pāṇḍu; afraid of the censure of her relatives, Kuntī deserted the child and exposed it in the river, where it was found by a charioteer named Adhi-ratha and nurtured by his wife Rādhā ; hence Karṇa is sometimes called Sūta-putra or Sūta-ja, sometimes Rādheya, though named by his foster-parents Vasu-ṣeṇa), [MBh.]; [BhP.] &c.
N. of several other men
karṇá (mfn. karṇá), eared, furnished with ears or long ears, [AV. v, 13, 9]; [VS.]; [TS.]
furnished with chaff (as grain), [TS. i, 8, 9, 3.]
(accord. to some also, karṇá, ‘cropped or defective on the ears’) in comp.