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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