kriyā (f)
Meanings
- (in Gr.) action (as the general idea expressed by any verb)
- a literary work
- a noun of action
- a religious rite or ceremony
- act
- action
- activity
- applying a remedy
- as a daughter of Kardama and wife of Kratu)
- bodily action
- business
- cure
- doing
- exercise of the limbs
- judicial investigation
- labour
- medical treatment or practice
- obsequies
- occupation with (in comp.)
- performance
- performing
- purificatory rites (as ablution etc.)
- religious action
- Religious Action (personified as a daughter of Dakṣa and wife of Dharma)
- rites performed immediately after death
- sacrifice
- sacrificial act
- undertaking
- verb
- work
- worship
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