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kaṭa

káṭa m. (perhaps for karta fr. √ 3. kṛt) a twist of straw of grass, straw mat, a screen of straw, [TS.]; [ŚBr.]; [KātyŚr.]; [Mn.] &c.


the hip, [MBh.] (cf. kaṭi)


the hollow above the hip or the loins, the hip and loins


the temples of an elephant, [Ragh.]


a glance or side look, [BhP. x, 32, 6] (cf. kaṭākṣa)


a throw of the dice in hazard, [Mṛcch.]


a corpse, [L.]


a hearse or any vehicle for conveying a dead body, [L.]


a burning-ground or place of sepulture, [L.]


a time or season, [L.]


excess, superabundance, [L.]


( ifc. is considered as a suffix, cf. ut-kaṭa, pra-kaṭa, &c.)


an annual plant, [L.]


grass, [L.]


Saccharum Sara, [L.]


a thin piece of wood, a plank, [L.]


agreement, [L.]


environs, [L.]


N. of a Rakṣas, [R.]


káṭa n. (ifc.) dust of flowers (considered as a suffix, [Kāty.] on [Pāṇ. v, 2, 29]).