karaṇa

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[apte] a. [kṛ-lyuṭ] 1 Making, doing, effecting, producing. --2 (Ved.) Clever, skilled. --ṇaḥ 1 (Ved.) An as- sistant. --2 A man of a mixed tribe. --3 A writer. --ṇaṃ 1 Doing, perform- ing, accomplishing, effecting; parahitaº, saṃdhyāº, priyaº &c. --2 Act, action. --3 Religious action. --4 Business, trade. --5 An organ of sense; vapuṣā karaṇojjhi- tena sā nipataṃtī patimapyaṃpātayat R. 8. 38, 42; paṭukaraṇaiḥ prāṇibhiḥ Me....

[mw] &c, see p. 254, col. 1. 030306 255,1 44431

Root

√kṝ कॄ

Gaṇa 6· tudadi· Parasmaipada · vikṣepe

to discard, to throw away

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a. [kṛ-lyuṭ] 1 Making, doing, effecting, producing. --2 (Ved.) Clever, skilled. --ṇaḥ 1 (Ved.) An as- sistant. --2 A man of a mixed tribe. --3 A writer. --ṇaṃ 1 Doing, perform-...

Corpus Profile

Part of Speech: NOUN
Total Occurrences: 1,837
Texts Appeared In: 99

DCS: not mixed with water (as buttermilk); waterless; dry; [gemm.] (describes a flaw in a pearl)

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Manusmṛti surface: kāraṇam

prajānāṃ parirakṣārtham āsanaṃ cātra kāraṇam
Manusmṛti surface: kāraṇam

prayujyate vivāhe tu pradānaṃ svāmyakāraṇam
Mṛgendraṭīkā surface: kāraṇam

tasya ca bhagavata etat karaṇe kiṃ kāraṇam ity arthaḥ