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करण mfn. amf(ई) n (once करण॑, [RV. i, 119, 7] ) doing, making, effecting, causing (esp. ifc. ; cf. अन्तकरण, उष्णं-क्°, &c.), [R.] &c.
clever, skilful, [RV. i, 119, 7]
करण m. m. a helper, companion, [AV. vi, 46, 2; xv, 5, 1-6; xix, 57, 3]
a man of a mixed class (the son of an outcast क्षत्रिय, [Mn. x, 22] ; or the son of a शूद्र woman by a वैश्य, [Yājñ. i, 92] ; or the son of a वैश्य woman by a क्षत्रिय, [MBh. i, 2446; 4521] ; the occupation of this class is writing, accounts &c.)
writer, scribe, [W.]
करण n. m. (in Gr. ) a sound or word as an independent part of speech (or as separated from the context; in this sense usually n.), [Kāś.] on [Pāṇ. 3-1, 41] ; [Pat.] Comm. on [RPrāt.]
करण m. m. (in mus.) a kind of time, [Kum. vi, 40]
करण n. n. the act of making, doing, producing, effecting, [ŚBr.] ; [MBh.] &c. (very often ifc. e.g. मुष्टि-क्°, विरूप-क्°)
an act, deed, [RV.]
an action (esp. a religious one), [Yājñ. i, 250] ; [R.]
the special business of any tribe or caste, [L.]
a calculation (esp. an astronomical one), [VarBṛS.]
वव an astrological division of the day (these करणs are eleven, viz. , वलव, कौलव, तैतिल, गर, वणिज, विष्टि, शकुनि, चतुष्पद, किन्तुघ्न, and नाग, two being equal to a lunar day; the first seven are called अ-ध्रुवाणि or movable, and fill, eight times repeated, the space from the second half of the first day in the moon's increase to the first half of the fourteenth day in its wane; the four others are ध्रुवाणि or fixed, and occupy the four half-days from the second half of the fourteenth day in the wane of the moon to the first half of the first day in its increase), [VarBṛS.] ; [Suśr.] &c.
pronunciation, articulation, [APrāt.]
करण (in Gr. ) a sound or word as an independent part of speech, separated from its context, [Pāṇ.] ; [Kāś.] &c., ( may be used in this way like कारe.g. इति-करण, [ŚāṅkhŚr.] )
the posture of an ascetic
a posture in sexual intercourse
instrument, means of action, [ŚvetUp.] ; [Yājñ.] ; [Megh.]
an organ of sense or of speech, [VPrāt.] ; [PārGṛ.]
(in law) an instrument, document, bond, [Mn. viii, 51; 52; 154]
(in Gr. ) the means or instrument by which an action is effected, the idea expressed by the instrumental case, instrumentality, [Pāṇ. 1-4, 42; 2-3, 18; 3-2, 45]
कारण cause (= )
करण-प्रयोग a spell, charm, [Kathās.] (cf. )
rhythm, time, [Kum.]
body, [Megh.] ; [Kum.] ; [Kād.]
N. of a treatise of वराह-मिहिर on the motion of the planets
of a work belonging to the शिव-दर्शन
a field, [L.]
अन्तः-करण the mind, heart, [W.] (cf. )
grain, [W.]
(also) a sinew, tendon, muscle, [Kir.]
करण b &c. See p. 254, col. 1.
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