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kriyā

crooked, curved

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What it meant — Monier-Williams

1. كرِيَ-

kriya- m das Tierkreiszeichen Arıcs, der Widder ım Tierkreis (vVarHo, ua) - Aus gr xpiög “Widder”, Scherer, Gestimnamen 160 KRUNC sich krummen (Dhä), krukta- ‘crooked, curved’ (W filson], MonW 322a). - Viell nı, s. Tu 3595 - Weiteres ist unklar Schwerlich idg *Kreu-k (- lat. crux “Marterholz‘, lett krukner ‘gekrümmt sitzen’, u.a, Pok 938, Karulis I 428 [mit Lit] - Ved Vogel-Wörter wie kriiic- usw gehören wohl nicht … — [Mayrhofer, s.v. kriya-, p. 164]

2. kriyā

kriyā f. ( Pāṇ. iii, 3, 100 ), doing, performing, performance, occupation with (in comp. ), business, act, action, undertaking, activity, work, labour, KātyŚr. ; Mn. ; Yājñ. &c.

3. kriyā

(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, sakarmakriyā, ‘active’, and akarmak, ‘intransitive’)

4. kriyā

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. )

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Sanskrit corpus record built from GRETIL sources (citations and statistics; GRETIL running text is not redistributable). Passage text, where shown, from the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (CC BY 4.0). Dictionary senses from Monier-Williams (1899, public domain), via the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries.