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क्रिया f. f. ([Pāṇ. 3-3, 100] ), doing, performing, performance, occupation with (in comp. ), business, act, action, undertaking, activity, work, labour, KātyŚr.; [Mn.] ; [Yājñ.] &c. bodily action, exercise of the limbs, [L.] सकर्म-क्रिया (in Gr. ) action (as the general idea expressed by any verb), verb, [Kāś.] on [Pāṇ. 1-3, 1 &c.] (according to later grammarians a verb is of two kinds, , ‘active’, and अकर्म-क्°, ‘intransitive’) a noun of action, [W.] a literary work, [Vikr.] सम-क्रिय-त्व medical treatment or practice, applying a remedy, cure (See and विषम-क्°), [Suśr.] a religious rite or ceremony, sacrificial act, sacrifice, [Mn.] ; [Yājñ.] ; [MBh.] &c. चरमा with , ‘the last ceremony’, rites performed immediately after death, obsequies, purificatory rites (as ablution &c.), [MBh. iv, 834] ; [R. vi, 96, 10] religious action, worship, [BhP. vii, 14, 39] ; [RāmatUp.] Religious Action (personified as a daughter of दक्ष and wife of धर्म, [MBh. i, 2578] ; [Hariv. 12452] ; [BhP.] ; or as a daughter of कर्दम and wife of क्रतु, [BhP.] ) judicial investigation (by human means, as by witnesses, documents, &c., or by superhuman means, as by various ordeals) Comm. on [Yājñ.] atonement, [L.] disquisition, [L.] study, [L.] means, expedient, [L.]
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