search `karaNa' in `Apte Dic'

meanings of "karaNa" [1]

a.{a-stem}

1.making;

2.clever

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meanings of "karaNa" [2]

m.{a-stem}

1.an assistant;

2.a man of a mixed tribe;

3.a writer;

4.a child

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meanings of "karaNa" [3]

n.{a-stem}

1.doing;

2.act;

3.religious action;

4.business;

5.an organ of sense;

6.the body;

7.an instrument or means of an action;

8.(in logic) the instrumental cause which is thus defined;

9.a cause or motive (in general);

10.the sense expressed by the instrumental case (in gram.);

11.(in law) a document;

12.a kind of rhythmical pause;

13.(in astrol.) a division of the day (these karNas are eleven);

14.the Supreme Being;

15.pronunciation;

16.the posture of an ascetic;

17.a posture in sexual enjoyment;

18.a field;

19.plastering with the hand;

20.the usage of the writer caste;

21.the principle of intelligence;

22.(in astron.) name of a treatise of yaraahamihira on the motion of planets

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