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kṛcchra

kṛcchrá mf(A)n. (perhaps fr. √ kṛś, and connected with kaṣṭa), causing trouble or pain, painful, attended with pain or labour, [MBh.]; [R.]; [Pañcat.]; [Suśr.]


being in a difficult or painful situation, [R. ii, 78, 14]


bad, evil, wicked, [W.]


kṛcchrá (as, am), m. n. difficulty, trouble, labour, hardship, calamity, pain, danger (often ifc., e.g. vana-vāsak°, the difficulties of living in a forest; mūtra-k°, q.v.; artha-kṛcchreṣu, in difficulties, in a miserable situation, [MBh. iii, 65]; [Nal. xv, 3]; prāṇakṛcchra, danger of life, [MBh. ii, 6]; [BhP.]), [RV. x, 52, 4]; [Nir.]; [AitBr.] &c.


ischury (= mūtra-k°), [L.]


bodily mortification, austerity, penance, [Gaut.]; [Mn.] &c.


a particular kind of religious penance, [Mn.]; [Yājñ.]


kṛcchrá (as), m. N. of Viṣṇu, [MBh. xii, 12864]


(in comp. with a perf. Pass. p. [Pāṇ. ii, 1, 39]; [vi, 3, 2.])