kāraṇa (n)

Meanings

• a cause
• a deity
• a father
• a kind of musical instrument
• a legal instrument
• a number of scribes or Kāyasthas
• a sort of song
• agency
• an action
• an element
• an organ of sense
• cause
• condition
• elementary matter
• instrument
• instrumentality
• means
• motive
• origin
• principle
• reason
• that on which an opinion or judgment is founded
• the body
• the cause of anything
• the origin or plot of a play or poem

Sememes

• [for] [1]
• cause [7]
• means [1]

References

All references
Rasamañjarī	1
Rasaprakāśasudhākara	2
Rasaratnasamuccaya	1
Rasaratnākara	1
Rasārṇava	3
Rasendracintāmaṇi	1
Rasendracūḍāmaṇi	1