The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

ebirth among the gods" PvA 6. -- k!raka one who performs a religious duty D i.61 (=DA i.170). (b) doing,
manner, way: yena k!rena akattha tena k˚ pavattam!na' phala' "as you have done so will be the fruit" PvA
45. -- 2. ( -- ˚) (a) the production or application of, i. e. the state or quality of . . .: atta˚ one's own state
=aha' k!ra, individuality; para˚ the personality of others A iii.337; citti˚ reflection, thought PvA 26; see e.
g. andha˚ darkness, sak˚ homage, etc. -- balakk!rena forcibly PvA 68. -- (b) as ttg. the item, i. e. particle,
letter, sound or word, e. g. ma -- k!ra the letter m PvA 52; ca -- k!ra the particle ca PvA 15; sa -- k!ra the
sound sa SnA 23. -- (c) (adj. -- n.) [cp. kara] one who does, handles or deals with: ayak!ra iron -- smith
Miln 331.
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K!raka
K!raka (usually -- ˚) the doer (of): Vin ii.221 (capu -- capu˚); s!sana˚ he who does according to (my)
advice Sn 445; Bdhd 85 sq.; -- f. k!rik!: veyy!vacca˚ a servant PvA 65 (text reads ˚t!); as n. the
performance of ( -- ˚), service: dukkara -- k!rik! the performance of evil deeds S i.103; Th 2, 413 (=ThA
267). -- agga -- k!rik! first test, sample Vin iii.80.
K!ra*a
K!ra*a (nt.) [in meaning 1 represented in later Sk. by k!ra*! f., in meaning 2= Sk. k!ra*a nt., equivalent to
prak%ti, natural form, constituent, reason, cause]. 1. -- (a) a deed, action, performance, esp. an act imposed
or inflicted upon somebody by a higher authority (by the king as representative of justice or by kamma: M
iii.181; see kamma 11 3.A b.) as an ordeal, a feat or punishment: a labour or task in the sense of the 12
labours of Heracles or the labours of Hades. k!ra*a' k!r!peti "he makes somebody perform the task." Pass,
k!ra*a' or k!ra*! kar"yati. Thus as a set of five tasks or purgatory obligations under the name of
pañcavidha -- bandhana "the group of five" (not, as Warren trsl. p. 257 "inflict on him the torture called the
fivefold pinion"), a means of punishment in Niraya (q. v. under pañca). Not primarily torture (Rh. Davids,
Miln trsl. i.254, and others with wrong derivation from k%*tati). At DhA iii.70 these punishments are
comprehended under the term dasa -- dukkhak!ra*!ni (the ten punishments in misery); the meaning
"punishment" also at J iv.87 (tantarajjuka' k˚' katv!), whereas at J vi.416 k. is directly paraphrased by
"mara*a," as much as "killing." Often spelt kara*a, q. v.; the spelling k!ra*! (as f.) at Miln 185 seems to be
a later spelling for k!ra*a'. See kara*a for further reference. -- Ki' k!ra*a' ajja k!ressati "what task will he
impose on me to -- day?" A v.324; as pañcavidhabandhana K˚ A i.141, PvA 251, Nd2 304iii. -- As adj.
˚k!ra*a in d!ru*a˚ "being obliged to go through the dreadful trial" PvA 221. -- (b) duty obligation, in k!ra*'
âk!ra*! (pl.) duties great and small DhA i.385. Cp. also k!ra*a' karoti to try M i.444. -- (c) a trick (i. e. a
duty imposed by a higher authority through training) J ii.325 (!nañja˚); Miln 201 (!k!sa -- gamana˚). 2. --
(a) acting, action as (material) cause: k˚ -- bh(ta being the cause of . . . PvA 15; -- (b) (intellectual) cause,
reason Miln 150; DhA i.389; esp. as -- ˚: arodana˚ the reason for not crying PvA 63; asocana˚ same, ibid.
62; !gamana˚ the reason for coming (here) ibid. 81, 106. =pariyatti, DhA. 36.=attha, SA on i.215, SnA.
i.238 -- instr. k!ra*ena by necessity, needs PvA 195; tena k˚ therefore ibid. 40 -- abl. k!ran! by means of,
through, by (=hetu or niss!ya) PvA 27; imasm! k˚ therefore PvA 40; k!ra*a&&h! (expl. as attha -- k!ra*!
Nd2) for the purpose of some object or advantage Sn 75; opp. nikk!ra*! from unselfishness ibid. --
sak!ra*a (adj.) with good reason (of vacana) PvA 109.
K!ra*ika
K!ra*ika [der. fr. prec.] the meaning ought to be "one who is under a certain obligation" or "one who
dispenses certain obligations." In usu˚ S ii.257 however used simply in the sense of making: arrow --
maker, fletcher. Perhaps the reading should be ˚k!raka.
K!ra*.ava