करुण

{ karuṇa }

Puranic Encyclopaedia

KARUṆA   See under Dhanañjaya.

हिन्दी (hindi) WN

See : ईश्वर, दयालु, गौतम बुद्ध, दुखमय, करुण रस

Aryabhushan School Dictionary

a   Moving, pity-exciting, pitiful.
 m -णा
 f  Mercy, pity.
करुणा भाकणें   To implore mercy, to appeal to pity.

महाराष्ट्र शब्दकोश

करुणरस पहा .
 पु. दीनवाणा , करुणेचा , काकुळतीचा शब्द . ( सं .)

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

करुण  mfn.  mf( आ)n. (√ 1. कॄ, [Uṇ. iii, 53]; but in some of its meanings fr. √ 1. कृ), mournful, miserable, lamenting, [MBh.]; [Daś.] &c.
compassionate, [BhP.]
करुण  m.  m. ‘causing pity or compassion’, one of the रसs or sentiments of a poem, the pathetic sentiment, [Sāh.] &c.
Citrus Decumana, [L.]
a बुद्ध, [L.]
N. of an असुर, [Hariv.]
करुण  n.  n. an action, holy work, [RV. i, 100, 7]; [AV. xii, 3, 47]; [TS. i.]

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

करुण [karuṇa] a.  a. [करोति मनः आनुकूल्याय, कृ-उनन् [Tv.] ] Tender, pathetic, pitiable, exciting pity, mournful; करुणध्वनिः [V.1;] [Śi.9.67;] विकलकरुणैरार्यचरितैः [U.1.28.]
णः Pity, compassion, tenderness.
Pathetic sentiment, grief, sorrow (as one of the 8 or 9 sentiments); पुट- पाकप्रतीकाशो रामस्य करुणो रसः [U.3.1,13;7.12;] विलपन्... करुणार्थग्रथितं प्रियां प्रति [R.8.7.]
The Supreme Being.
A Jaina saint.
-णम्   Ved. An action, a holy or sacred rite. स विश्वस्य करुणस्येश एको [Rv.1.1.7;] ममेदु- कर्मन् करुणेऽधि जाया [Av.12.3.47.] ind. mournfully, woefully; अधस्ताच्छिंशपामूले साध्वी करुणमास्थिता [Rām.5.59.21.] -Comp.
-मल्ली   the Mallikā plant.
-विप्रलम्भः   (in Rhet.) the feeling of love in separation.

Shabda-Sagara

करुण  mf.  ( -णः-णा) Tenderness, pity, compassion, the feeling or sentiment. adv. ( -णं) Pitifully, in distress.
 m.  ( -णः)
1. Sorrow, affliction, one of the eight sentiments.
2. The name of a fruit-tree, the pamplemouse, (Citrus decumana.)
3. A Jina or Jaina saint.
E. कॄ to send or cast, उनन् Unadi aff.

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कॄ उनन्