ka : the first consonant of the alphabet, and the first guttural letter (corresponding in sound to k in keep or king).

ka : ká kas, kā, kim, interrog. pron. (see kim and kad, and cf. the following words in which the interrogative base appears, katama, katara, kati, katham, kadā, karhi, kā, &c.), who? which? what? In its declension follows the pronoun tad except in nom. acc. sing. neut., where kim has taken the place of kad or kat in classical Sanskṛt; but the old form kad is found in the Veda (see [Gram. 227]);

ka : [cf. Zd. ka, kô, kâ, kat; Gk. πόθεν, πῶς, (Ion. κόθεν, κῶς), τίς, τί; Lat. quis, quid; Lith. kas ká; Goth. hvas, hvô, hva, Angl.Sax. hwā, hwaet; Eng. who, what.]

ka : The interrogative sentence introduced by is often terminated by iti (e.g. kasya sa putra iti kathyatām, let it be said, ‘whose son is he?’), but iti may be omitted and the sentence lose its direct interrogative character (e.g. kasya sa putro na jñāyate, it is not known whose son he is). with or without √ 1. as may express ‘how is it possible that?’ ‘what power have I, you, they, &c.?’ (e.g. ke mama dhanvino'nye, what can the other archers do against me? ke āvām paritrātum, what power have we to rescue you?) is often connected with a demonstrative pron. (e.g. ko 'yam āyāti, who comes here?) or with the potential (e.g. ko hariṃ nindet, who will blame Hari?) is sometimes repeated (e.g. kaḥ ko 'tra, who is there? kān kān, whom? whom? i.e. which of them? cf. [Gram. 54]), and the repetition is often due to a kind of attraction (e.g. keṣāṃ kiṃ śāstram adhyayanīyam, which book is to be read by whom? [Gram. 836. a]). When kim is connected with the inst. c. of a noun or with the indeclinable participle it may express ‘what is gained by doing so, &c.?’ (= ko'rthas); (e.g. kiṃ vilambena, what is gained by delay? kim bahunā, what is the use of more words? dhanena kiṃ yo na dadāti, what is the use of wealth to him who does not give? with inst. and gen., nīrujaḥ kim auṣadhaiḥ, what is the use of medicine to the healthy?)

ka : is often followed by the particles iva, u, nāma, nu, vā, svid, some of which serve merely to generalize the interrogation (e.g. kim iva etad, what can this be? ka u śravat, who can possibly hear? ko nāma jānāti, who indeed knows? ko nvayam, who, pray, is this? kiṃ nu kāryam, what is to be done? ko vā devād anyaḥ, who possibly other than a god? kasya svid hṛdayaṃ nāsti, of what person is there no heart?)

ka : is occasionally used alone as an indefinite pronoun, especially in negative sentences (e.g. na kasya ko vallabhaḥ, no one is a favourite of any one; nānyo jānāti kaḥ, no one else knows; kathaṃ sa ghātayati kam, how does he kill any one?) Generally, however, is only made indefinite when connected with the particles ca, caná, cid, vā, and ápi, in which case may sometimes be preceded by the relative ya (e.g. ye ke ca, any persons whatsoever; yasyai kasyai ca devatāyai, to any deity whatsoever; yāni kāni ca mitrāṇi, any friends whatsoever; yat kiṃca, whatever). The particle cana, being composed of ca and na, properly gives a negative force to the pronoun (e.g. yasmād indrād ṛte kiṃcana, without which Indra there is nothing), but the negative sense is generally dropped (e.g. kaścana, any one; na kaścana, no one), and a relative is sometimes connected with it (e.g. yat kiṃcana, anything whatsoever). Examples of cid with the interrogative are common; vā and api are not so common, but the latter is often found in classical Sanskṛt (e.g. kaścid, any one; kecid, some; na kaścid, no one; na kiṃcid api, nothing whatsoever; yaḥ kaścid, any one whatsoever; kecit — kecit, some — others; yasmin kasmin vā deśe, in any country whatsoever; na ko 'pi, no one; na kimapi, nothing whatever). may sometimes be used, like 2. kad, at the beginning of a compound. See ka-pūya, &c.

ka : ká as, m. (according to native authorities) N. of Prajāpati or of a Prajāpati, [VS. xx, 4]; [xxii, 20]; [TS. i]; [ŚBr.] &c.

ka : of Brahman, [MBh. i, 32]; [BhP. iii, 12, 51]; [xii, 13, 19]; [20]

ka : of Dakṣa, [BhP. ix, 10, 10]

ka : of Viṣṇu, [L.]

ka : of Yama, [L.]

ka : of Garuḍa

ka : the soul, [Tattvas.]

ka : a particular comet, [VarBṛS.]

ka : the sun, [L.]

ka : fire, [L.]

ka : splendour, light, [L.]

ka : air, [L.]

ka : a peacock, [L.]

ka : the body, [L.]

ka : time, [L.]

ka : wealth, [L.]

ka : sound, [L.]

ka : a king, [L.]

ka : = kāma-granthi (?)

ka : ká (am), n. happiness, joy, pleasure, [ChUp. iv, 10, 5]; [Nir.] &c.

ka : water, [MaitrS. i, 10, 10]; [ŚBr. x]; [Yājñ.] &c.

ka : the head

ka : hair, a head of hair, [L.]

ka : ká n. (also regarded as ind.; cf. 1. kam.)

ka : a Taddhita affix (much used in forming adjectives; it may also be added to nouns to express diminution, deterioration, or similarity, e.g. putraka, a little son; aśvaka, a bad horse or like a horse).

stha : . See p. 1262, col. 3.

stha : mf(A)n. (or ṣṭha) (only ifc.) standing, staying, abiding, being situated in, existing or being in or on or among (see agni-, garbha-, jala-, naraka-, rājya-stha &c.)

stha : occupied with, engaged in, devoted to performing, practising (see dhyāna-, yajña-, yoga-, savana-stha &c.)

stha : a place, ground (ibc. = sthala), [L.]

as : cl. 2. P. ásti (2. sg. ási, 1. sg. ásmi; pl. smási or smás, sthá, sánti; (rarely Ā., e.g. 1. pl. smahe, [MBh. xiii, 13]); Subj. ásat; Imper. astu, 2. sg. edhi (fr. as-dhi cf. [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 119]); Pot. syā́t; impf. ā́sīt, rarely ās [only in [RV. x]; cf. [Pāṇ. vii, 3, 97]] ; perf. 1. and 3. sg., ā́sa, 2. sg. ā́sitha, 3. pl. āsúḥ; p. m. sát f. satī́) to be, live, exist, be present; to take place, happen; to abide, dwell, stay; to belong to (gen. or dat.); to fall to the share of, happen to any one (gen.); to be equal to (dat.), [ŚBr. xiv]; [Mn. xi, 85]; to turn out, tend towards any result, prove (with dat.); to become, [BṛĀrUp.] &c., (cf. [Pāṇ. v, 4, 51]-[55]); to be (i.e. used as copula, but not only with adj., but also with adv. [e.g. tūṣṇīm āsīt, [MBh. iii, 4041]], and often with part., [e.g. perf. Pass. p. prasthitāḥ sma, [N.]; fut. p.p. hantavyo 'smi, [N.]; fut. p. especially with Pot., and only in [ŚBr.], as yádi dāsyán-t-syā́t, ‘if he should intend to give’]; the pf. āsa helps to form the periphrastic perf., and asmi &c. the fut.);

as : [cf. Gk. ἐσ-τί; Lat. es-t; Goth. is-t; Lith. es-ti.]

as : cl. 4. P. ásyati (p. ásyat; impf. ā́syat, [AV.] [cf. parās and vy-as]; fut. p. asiṣyát; aor. āsthat [[Nir. ii, 2]; [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 17]; cf. vy-as]; perf. P. āsa [cf. parās] Ā. āse [cf. vy-as]; Ved. Inf. ástave, [VS.]) to throw, cast, shoot at (loc. dat., or gen.), [RV.] &c.; to drive or frighten away, [Nalod. iv, 36]; See also 1. astá s.v.

as : asati, °te = √ aṣ, q.v.

śreṣṭhatama : śréṣṭha—tama (śréṣṭha-), mfn. the very best, most excellent, [RV.] &c. &c.

ya : the 1st semivowel (corresponding to the vowels i and ī, and having the sound of the English y, in Bengal usually pronounced j).

ya : m. (in prosody) a bacchic (˘ ¯ ¯), [Piṅg.]

ya : the actual base of the relative pronoun in declension [cf. yád and Gk. ὅς, ἥ, ὅ].

ya : m. (in some senses fr. √ 1. yā, only, [L.]) a goer or mover

ya : wind

ya : joining

ya : restraining

ya : fame

ya : a carriage (?)

ya : barley

ya : light

ya : abandoning

eka : éka mfn. (√ i, [Uṇ. iii, 43], probably fr. a base e; cf. Zd. ae-va; Gk. οἰ-ν-ός, οἶος; Goth. ai-n-s; also Lat. aequu-s; g. sarvādi, [Pāṇ. i, 1, 27]; see [Gr. 200]), one (eko'pi, or ekaś-cana, with na preceding or following, no one, nobody; the words ekayā na or ekān na are used before decade numerals to lessen them by one, e.g. ekān na triṃśat, twenty-nine), [RV.] &c.

eka : (with and without eva) alone, solitary, single, happening only once, that one only (frequently ifc.; cf. dharmaika-rakṣa, &c.), [RV.] &c.

eka : the same, one and the same, identical, [ŚBr. v]; [KātyŚr.]; [Mn.] &c.

eka : one of two or many ( — , — dvitīya, the one — the other; esp. pl. eke, some, eke — apare some — others, &c.), [ŚBr.]; [KātyŚr.]; [MBh.]; [Hit.] &c.

eka : ( repeated twice, either as a compound [cf. ekaika] or uncompounded, may have the sense ‘one and one’, ‘one by one’, [RV. i, 20, 7]; [123, 8]; [v, 52, 17]; [R.]; [BhP.] &c.)

eka : single of its kind, unique, singular, chief, pre-eminent, excellent, [Ragh.]; [Kathās.]; [Kum.] &c.

eka : sincere, truthful, [MW.]

eka : little, small, [L.]

eka : (sometimes used as an indefinite article), a, an, [R.]; [Śak.]; [Vet.] &c. (the fem. of before a Taddhita suffix and as first member of a compound is not ekā, [Pāṇ. vi, 3, 62])

eka : éka m. N. of a teacher, [Āp.]

eka : of a son of Raya, [BhP.]

eka : éka n. unity, a unit (ifc.), [Hcat.]

yā : (ā), f. going; a car

yā : restraining, religious meditation

yā : attaining

yā : pudendum muliebre

yā : N. of Lakṣmī.

yā : (collateral form of √ 5. i) cl. 2. P. ([Dhātup. xxiv, 41]) yā́ti (1. pl. yāmahe, [MBh.]; impf. 3. pl. ayuḥ, [Br.]; ayān, [Pāṇ. iii, 4, 111], Sch.; pf. yayaú, yayā́tha, yayá, yayúḥ, [RV.] &c. &c.; yaye, [Kāv.]; aor. ayāsam or ayāsiṣam; Subj. yā́sat, yeṣam, yāsiṣat, [RV.]; [Br.]; Prec. yāsiṣīṣṭhās, [Br.]; fut. yātā, [MBh.] &c.; yāsyati, [AV.]; °te, [MBh.]; inf. yātum, [MBh.] &c.; Ved. inf. yaí, yā́tave or °vaí; ind.p. yātvā́, [Br.] &c.; -yā́ya, -yāyam, [ib.]), to go, proceed, move, walk, set out, march, advance, travel, journey (often with instr. or acc. of the way, esp. with gatim, mārgam, adhvānam, panthānam, padavīm, yātrām), [RV.] &c. &c.; to go away, withdraw, retire, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; (also with palāyya) to flee, escape, [R.]; [Kathās.] (with kṣemeṇa or svasti, to escape unscathed, [Pañcat.]; [BhP.]); to go towards or against, go or come to, enter, approach, arrive at, reach, [RV.] &c. &c. (with acc. often followed by prati, e.g. with gṛham, to enter a house; with ripum prati, to march against the enemy; with mṛgayām, to go out hunting; with śirasāmahīm, to bow down to the ground with the head; with prakṛtim, to return to one's natural state; with karṇau, to come to the ears, be heard; with utsavād utsavam, to go from one festival to another; with hastam ifc., to fall into the hands of; with patham or gocaram ifc., to come within range of; esp. with the acc. of an abstract noun = to go to any state or condition, become, be, e.g. vināśaṃ yāti, he goes to destruction i.e. he is destroyed; kāṭhinyaṃ yāti, it becomes hard; dveṣyatāṃ yāti, he becomes hated; similarly nidhanaṃ-√ yā, to die; nidrāṃ-√ yā, to fall asleep; udayaṃ-√ yā, to rise, said of stars &c.; sometimes also with loc., e.g. yāhi rājñaḥ sakāśe, go into the presence of the king, [R.]; or even with dat., e.g. yayatuḥ sva-niveśāya, both went home, [Kathās.] ; na cātmane kṛpaṇasya dhanaṃ yāti, nor does the wealth of the miser go to [i.e. benefit] himself, [Hit.]; phalebhyo yāti, he goes to [fetch] fruits, [Pāṇ. ii, 3, 14], Sch.); to go to for any request, implore, solicit (with two acc.), [RV.]; (with striyam) to go to a woman for sexual intercourse, [MBh.]; to go to for any purpose (inf.), [Bhaṭṭ.]; [Vop.]; often with adverbs, e.g. with bahir, to go out, [Kathās.]; with adho, to go down, sink, [BhP.]; with khaṇḍaśo or dalaśo, to fall to pieces, [Kathās.]; with śata-dhā, to fall into a hundred pieces, [ib.]; to extend to (acc.), [VarBṛS.]; to last for (acc.), [Hit.]; to pass away, elapse (said of time), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to vanish, disappear (as wealth), [Mṛcch.]; to come to pass, prosper, succeed, [BhP.]; to proceed, behave, act, [MBh.]; to find out, discover, [MBh.]; to receive or learn (a science) from (abl.), [BhP.]; to undertake, undergo (acc.), [RV.]; Impv. yātu, be it as it may, [Hit.] : Pass. yāyate, to be gone or moved, [MBh.] : Caus. yāpáyati (aor. ayīyapat), to cause to depart, cause to go or march, dismiss, [Kāv.]; [BhP.]; to cause to go towards (acc.), [Pāṇ. i, 4, 32], Sch. (cf. yāpita); to direct (the gaze) towards (loc.), [Bhartṛ.] (v.l. pātayati); to drive away remove, cure (a disease), [Suśr.]; to cause to pass or elapse, pass or spend (time), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to live (Pāli yāpeti), [Divyāv.]; to cause to subsist, support, maintain, [Divyāv.]; to induce, [MW.] : Desid. yiyāsati, to intend or be about to go, desire to proceed, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.: Intens. īyāyate (?), to move, [PraśnUp.]; yāyayate, yāyeti, yāyāti Gr.

yā : (ifc.) going, moving (see ṛṇa-, eva-, tura-, deva-yā).

yā : f. of ya, q.v.

parama : paramá mf(A)n. (superl. of pára) most distant, remotest, extreme, last, [RV.] &c. &c.

parama : chief, highest, primary, most prominent or conspicuous

parama : best, most excellent, worst (°meṇa cetasā, with all the heart; °ma-kaṇṭhena, ‘with all the throat’, roaring, speaking aloud), [ib.]

parama : (with abl.) superior or inferior to, better or worse than, [MBh.]; [R.]

parama : paramá m. N. of 2 authors, [Cat.]

parama : paramá n. highest point, extreme limit (catur-viṃśati-p°, at the utmost 24), [MBh.] &c.

parama : paramá n. chief part or matter or object (ifc. f(A). = consisting chiefly of, completely occupied with or devoted to or intent upon), [Mn.]; [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

parama : paramá n. (also parama- in comp.; see below) very much, excessively, excellently, in the highest degree, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

parāvat : parā-vat (for °ra-vat) mfn. offering beatitude, [Āpast.]

parāvat : parā—vát f. distance (opp. to arvā-vat), [ib.]; [AV.]; [Br.]

parāvat : parā-vat See under 2. parā, p. 589.