kā

1. kä-

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2. كَ

2. ka kas, kā, kim, interrog. pron. (see kim and 2. kad, and cf. the following words in which the interrogative base ka appears, katama, katara, kati, katham, kadā, karhi, kā, &c.), who? which? what? In its declension ka follows the pronoun tad except in nom. acc. sing. neut. , where kim has tak

3. كَ

The interrogative sentence introduced by ka is often terminated by iti ( e.g. kasyasaputraitikathyatām, let it be said, ‘whose son is he?’), but iti may be omitted and the sentence lose its direct interrogative character ( e.g. kasyasaputronajñāyate, it is not known whose son he is). ka with or with

4. كَ

ka is occasionally used alone as an indefinite pronoun, especially in negative sentences ( e.g. nakasyakovallabhaḥ, no one is a favourite of any one; nA nyo jAnAti kaH , no one else knows; kathaṃsaghātayatikam, how does he kill any one?) Generally, however, ka is only made indefinite when connected