Kriyakara, Kriyākāra, Kriya-kara: 8 definitions
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryKriyākāra (क्रियाकार).—
1) an agent, worker.
2) a beginner, tyro, a fresh student.
3) an agreement.
Derivable forms: kriyākāraḥ (क्रियाकारः).
Kriyākāra is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms kriyā and kāra (कार).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryKriyākāra (क्रियाकार).—m. (compare kriyā, and next), lit. the making of a decision, determination; so, resolution, agreement; = pratijñā, Mahāvastu iii.329.9, below; commonly as object of a form of kṛ (or subject of a passive thereof), of making a resolution or agreement; also with anu-rakṣ, keep an agree- ment, and bhid-, ud-ghāṭay-, or ud-ghātay-, break it: Lalitavistara 407.18 kriyābandham (see next) akārṣuḥ (pañcakā bhadravargīyāḥ), made an agreement (to the effect stated in the following quotation), followed 408.17 by kriyākāraṃ (v.l. kriyāṃ) bhittvā, breaking their agreement; in account of this same incident Mahāvastu iii.329.3 kriyākāraṃ (mss. °kālaṃ) karonti (bhadravargīyāḥ), but below 329.9 bhagnā…pratijñā, the agreement (promise) has been broken; Divyāvadāna 6.8 °raṃ tāvat kurmaḥ; 32.10; 33.8 ff.; 128.6, 9, 28; 129.9; 130.5 f.; 136.8; 203.20; 338.13 f.; Avadāna-śataka i.83.10; 88.8; 90.13 udghāṭyatāṃ kriyākāraḥ; ii.53.10; 136.5; 154.3; Kāraṇḍavvūha 56.24 (misprinted kriyākaraṃ); 58.1, 3, 14; Bodhisattvabhūmi 162.5 °kāram anurakṣataḥ (gen. sg. pres. pple.); 176.8 °kāram anurakṣitukāmasya, et alibi; Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya iv.133.1, 3 (wrongly Dutt p. xvi).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryKriyākara (क्रियाकर).—m.
(-raḥ) See the next.
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Kriyākāra (क्रियाकार).—mfn.
(-raḥ-rī-raṃ) One who does any act, an agent, a performer. m.
(-raḥ) A student, a novice, a tyro. E. kriyā study, and kara or kāra, who makes.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Kriyākara (क्रियाकर):—[=kriyā-kara] [from kriyā > kriyamāṇa] m. one who performs an action, [Horace H. Wilson]
2) [v.s. ...] a student, [Horace H. Wilson]
3) Kriyākāra (क्रियाकार):—[=kriyā-kāra] [from kriyā > kriyamāṇa] m. a beginner, novice, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
4) [v.s. ...] an agreement, [Kāraṇḍa-vyūha xvii]
5) [v.s. ...] an arrangement, rule, [Divyāvadāna]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Kriyākara (क्रियाकर):—[kriyā-kara] (raḥ) 1. m. An agent or performer; a student or tyro.
2) Kriyākāra (क्रियाकार):—[kriyā-kāra] (raḥ) 1. m. A student, a tyro.
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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
Kannada-English dictionary
Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpusKriyākāra (ಕ್ರಿಯಾಕಾರ):—
1) [noun] an agreement between two or more people to do something; a contract.
2) [noun] a beginner in learning something; a novice; a new student.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
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