kará mf(I, rarely A)n. (for 2. See p. 254, col. 3) (√ kṛ), a doer, maker, causer, doing, making, causing, producing (esp. ifc.; cf. duḥkhakara, bhayaṃ-k°, sampat-k°, &c.; cf. Lat. cerus, ‘creator’), [AV. xii, 2, 2]; [Mn.]; [Pañcat.] &c.
helping, promoting, [RV. i, 116, 13]
kará m. the act of doing, making &c. (ifc.; cf. īṣatkara, su-k°, duṣ-k°, &c.)
‘the doer’, the hand, [RV. x, 67, 6]; [MBh.]; [Mn.] &c.
a measure (the breadth of twenty-four thumbs)
an elephant's trunk, [MBh.]; [Pañcat.] &c.
the claws of a crab, [Hit.]
symbolical expression for the number two
the lunar mansion Hasta, [VarBṛS.]
m. (for 1. See p. 253, col. 1) (√ kṝ), a ray of light, sunbeam, moonbeam, [R.]; [Megh.]; [Pañcat.] &c.
hail, [L.]
royal revenue, toll, tax, tribute, duty, [Mn.]; [Yājñ.]; [MBh.] &c.