car cl. 1. carati, rarely te ( Subj. carat, 3. pl. carān, RV. ; perf. cacāra [ AV. &c.], 2. sg. cacartha, BhP. iv, 28, 52 ; pl. cerur, &c.; ratur, ŚBr. &c.; Ā. cere, BhP. iii, 1, 19 ; fut. cariṣyati, te; aor. acārīt [ ŚBr. xiv &c.]; inf. caritum [ ii ; MBh. i , iii ; R. ] or cartum [ MBh. iii , xiii ; R. iii ; BhP. v ], Ved. caradhyai [ RV. i, 61, 12 ], caritave [ 113, 5 ], carase [ 92, 9 and v, 47, 4 ], carāyai [ vii, 77, 1 ], caritos [ AitĀr. i, 1, 1, 7 ]; ind.p. caritvā, ŚBr. xiv ; BhP. x, 75, 19 ; cartvā, MBh. v, 3790 ; cīrtvā, xiii, 495 ; p. carat) to move one's self, go, walk, move, stir, roam about, wander (said of men, animals, water, ships, stars, &c.), RV. ; AV. &c.; to spread, be diffused (as fire), VarBṛS. xix, 7 ; to move or travel through, pervade, go along, follow, Mn. ; MBh. &c.; to behave, conduct one's self, act, live, treat (with instr. or loc. ), RV. ; AV. &c.; to be engaged in, occupied or busy with ( instr. , e.g. yajñenac, ‘to be engaged in a sacrifice’, ŚBr. ), RV. x, 71, 5 ; AV. vi, 117, 1 ; AitBr. &c.; (with [ ŚBr. iv ; ChUp. ; Kauś. ; ŚāṅkhŚr. ] or without [ ŚBr. ii , xiv ] mithunam) to have intercourse with, have to do with ( instr. ); (with a p. or adj. or ind.p. or adv. ) to continue performing or being ( e.g. arcantaścerur, ‘they continued worshipping’, ŚBr. i ; svāminamavajñāyacaret, ‘he may go on despising his master’, Hit. ), RV. ; AV. ; VS. &c.; (in astron. ) to be in any asterism or conjunction, VarBṛS. ; to undertake, set about, under go, observe, practise, do or act in general, effect, make ( e.g. vratāni ‘to observe vows’, AV. &c.; vighnaṃc, ‘to put a hindrance’, MBh. ; bhaikṣaṃc ‘to beg’, Mn. ii ; vivādaṃc, ‘to be engaged in a lawsuit’, Mn. viii, 8 ; mṛgayāṃc, ‘to hunt’, MBh. ; R. ; sambandhāṃśc, ‘to enter into connections’, Mn. ii, 40 ; mārgaṃcacārabāṇaiḥ, ‘he made a way with arrows’, R. iii, 34, 4 ; tapasāindriyāṇic, to exercise one's organs with penance, MBh. xiv, 544 ), RV. ; AV. &c.; to consume, eat (with acc. ), graze, Yājñ. iii, 324 ; Pañcat. ; BhP. v , x ; Subh. ; Hit. ; to make or render (with double acc. ) e.g. narendraṃsatyasthaṃcarāma, ‘let us make the king keep his word’, R. ii, 107, 19 : Caus. cārayati, to cause to move or walk about, AV. xii, 4, 28 ( aor. acīcarat), ŚāṅkhBr. xxx, 8 ; Lāṭy. ; to pasture, MBh. xiv ; R. ; BhP. iii , x ; to send, direct, turn, move, MBh. &c.; to cause any one ( acc. ) to walk through ( acc. ), MBh. xii ; R. v, 49, 14 ; to drive away from ( abl. ), MBh. xii, 12944 ; to cause any one ( acc. ) to practise or perform (with acc. ), Mn. xi, 177 and 192 ; to cause (any animal acc. ) to eat, Bādar. ii, 2, 5 , Sch. ; to cause to copulate, Mn. viii, 362 ; to ascertain (as through a spy instr. ), MBh. iii , xv ; R. i , vi ; to doubt ( cf. vi), Dhātup. xxxiii, 71 : Desid. cicariṣati, to try to go, ŚāṅkhBr. xxx, 8 ( p. cicarṣat) ; to wish to act or conduct one's self, ŚBr. xi ; to try to have intercourse with ( instr. ), vi : Intens. carcarīti Ā. or rarely [ MBh. iii, 12850 ] Pass. cañcūryate (curīti and cūrti, Pāṇ. vii, 4, 87 f. ; ind.p. cūrya, R. iv, 29, 22 ; p. once P. cūryat, Hariv. 3602 ) to move quickly or repeatedly, walk about, roam about (in loc. ), AV. xx, 127, 4 ; MBh. &c.; to act wantonly or coquettishly, Bhaṭṭ. iv, 19 ( cf. Pāṇ. iii, 1, 24 ); [ cf. πέλομαι , ἀμϕί-πολο-ς , ἀνα-τολή &c.]
The corpus record — Sanskrit
caram
car cl. 1. carati, rarely te ( Subj. carat, 3. pl. carān, RV. ; perf. cacāra [ AV. &c.], 2. sg. cacartha, BhP. iv, 28, 52 ; pl. cerur, &c.; ratur, ŚBr. &c.; Ā. cere, BhP. iii, 1, 19 ; fut. cariṣyati, te; aor. acārīt [ ŚBr. xiv &c.]; inf. caritum [ ii ; MBh. i , iii ; R. ] or cartum [
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Where it lives
- Svetasvatara Upanisad 1 · 5.82/10k
- Taittiriya Upanisad 2 · 3.77/10k
- Bhagavad Gita 1 · 1.16/10k
- Brhadaranyaka Upanisad 5 · 0.66/10k
- Chandogya Upanisad 1 · 0.21/10k
What it meant — Monier-Williams
In the wild
- caram Bhagavad Gita 13.15
- cārāḥ Brhadaranyaka Upanisad brhup_2,5.15
- cārāḥ Brhadaranyaka Upanisad brhup_2,5.16
- caraṇaṃ Brhadaranyaka Upanisad brhup_3,6.1
- cārī Brhadaranyaka Upanisad brhup_4,4.6
- caraṇaṃ Brhadaranyaka Upanisad brhup_4,4.6
6 of 10 attestations shown.
Where it came from
- Treated in Mayrhofer, Etymologisches Worterbuch des Altindoarischen (EWAia) s.v. car (vol. 3, scan p. 698; entry #9230).
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