kriyā | क्रिया | kriyA
kriyā | क्रिया | f. (Pāṇ. iii, 3, 100), doing, performing, performance, occupation with (in comp.), business, act, action, undertaking, activity, work, labour, KātyŚr.; Mn.; Yājñ. &c.
bodily action, exercise of the limbs, L.
(in Gr.) action (as the general idea expressed by any verb), verb, Kāś. on Pāṇ. i, 3, 1 &c. (according to later grammarians a verb is of two kinds, sakarma-kriyā | सकर्म-क्रिया |, ‘active’, and akarma-k˚ | अकर्म-क्˚ |, ‘intransitive’)
a noun of action, W.
a literary work, Vikr.
medical treatment or practice, applying a remedy, cure (see sama-kriya-tva | सम-क्रिय-त्व | and viśama-k˚ | विशम-क्˚ |), Suśr.
a religious rite or ceremony, sacrificial act, sacrifice, Mn.; Yājñ.; MBh. &c.
with caramā | चरमा |, ‘the last ceremony’, rites performed immediately after death, obsequies, purificatory rites (as ablution &c.), MBh. iv, 834; R. vi, 96, 10
religious action, worship, BhP. vii, 14, 39; RāmatUp.
Religious Action (personified as a daughter of Dakṣa and wife of Dharma, MBh. i, 2578; Hariv. 12452; BhP.; or as a daughter of Kardama and wife of Kratu, BhP.)
judicial investigation (by human means, as by witnesses, documents, &c., or by superhuman means, as by various ordeals) Comm. on Yājñ.
atonement, L.
disquisition, L.
study, L.
means, expedient, L.
bodily action, exercise of the limbs, L.
(in Gr.) action (as the general idea expressed by any verb), verb, Kāś. on Pāṇ. i, 3, 1 &c. (according to later grammarians a verb is of two kinds, sakarma-kriyā | सकर्म-क्रिया |, ‘active’, and akarma-k˚ | अकर्म-क्˚ |, ‘intransitive’)
a noun of action, W.
a literary work, Vikr.
medical treatment or practice, applying a remedy, cure (see sama-kriya-tva | सम-क्रिय-त्व | and viśama-k˚ | विशम-क्˚ |), Suśr.
a religious rite or ceremony, sacrificial act, sacrifice, Mn.; Yājñ.; MBh. &c.
with caramā | चरमा |, ‘the last ceremony’, rites performed immediately after death, obsequies, purificatory rites (as ablution &c.), MBh. iv, 834; R. vi, 96, 10
religious action, worship, BhP. vii, 14, 39; RāmatUp.
Religious Action (personified as a daughter of Dakṣa and wife of Dharma, MBh. i, 2578; Hariv. 12452; BhP.; or as a daughter of Kardama and wife of Kratu, BhP.)
judicial investigation (by human means, as by witnesses, documents, &c., or by superhuman means, as by various ordeals) Comm. on Yājñ.
atonement, L.
disquisition, L.
study, L.
means, expedient, L.