m. N. of a sage (a pupil of Vais3ampa1yana vaiśampāyana and founder of a branch of the Yajur-veda yajur-veda, called after him) MBh. &c 244,3 42237 m. a pupil or follower of Kat2ha kaṭha (esp. pl.) 244,3 42238 m. a Bra1hman Brahman L. 244,3 42239 f. a female pupil or follower of Kat2ha kaṭha Comm. on Pa1n2. 244,3 42240

mf (I) n. proceeding from or composed by Kat2ha kaṭha Pa1n2. 4-3, 107; Ka1s3. 269,1 47455 m. a rock, stone L. 032072 269,1 47456 mf (I) n. relating to Kat2ha kaṭha, according to the Ka1t2haka kāṭhaka school of the Black Yajur-veda yajur-veda Pat.; Sarvad. 269,1 47457 n. N. of one of the recensions of the Black Yajur-veda yajur-veda Nir.; Pa1n2.; Pat. 032073 269,1 47458

A rock, stone.

mf (I) n. proceeding from or composed by Kat2ha kaṭha Pa1n2. 4-3, 107; Ka1s3. 269,1 47455 m. a rock, stone L. 032072 269,1 47456 mf (I) n. relating to Kat2ha kaṭha, according to the Ka1t2haka kāṭhaka school of the Black Yajur-veda yajur-veda Pat.; Sarvad. 269,1 47457 n. N. of one of the recensions of the Black Yajur-veda yajur-veda Nir.; Pa1n2.; Pat. 032073 269,1 47458

A rock, stone.

A gallinule.

m. a son or descendant of Kathaka kathaka Pravar. 032201 270,2 47649 m. id. g. gargādi. 032202 270,2 47650 f. of Ka1thakya kāthakya g. lohitādi. 032203 270,2 47651

m. a son or descendant of Kathaka kathaka Pravar. 032201 270,2 47649 m. id. g. gargādi. 032202 270,2 47650 f. of Ka1thakya kāthakya g. lohitādi. 032203 270,2 47651

kaṭhākuḥ is an alternate of kaṭākuḥ. A bird.

Gravel.

ind. (fr. 2. ka), how? in what manner? whence? (e.g. katham etat, how is that? katham idānīm, how now? what is now to be done? katham mārātmake tvayi viśvāsaḥ, how can there be reliance on thee of murderous mind? katham utsṛjya tvāṃ gaccheyam, how can I go... ind. sometimes katham merely introduces an interrogation (e.g. katham ātmānaṃ nivedayāmi kathaṃ vātmāpahāraṃ karomi, shall I declare myself or shall I...

ind. (fr. 2. ka), how? in what manner? whence? (e.g. katham etat, how is that? katham idānīm, how now? what is now to be done? katham mārātmake tvayi viśvāsaḥ, how can there be reliance on thee of murderous mind? katham utsṛjya tvāṃ gaccheyam, how can I go... ind. sometimes katham merely introduces an interrogation (e.g. katham ātmānaṃ nivedayāmi kathaṃ vātmāpahāraṃ karomi, shall I declare myself or shall I...

An epithet of Śiva.

a. (tkī f.) Accom- plished with difficulty.

What sort or manner.

2 Inquiry, question' demand.

a. Telling, talkative. naṃ narration, relation, description.

A small tale; e. g. Vetā- lapanchavimśati.

mf (I) n. (fr. kathaṃcid), accomplished with difficulty g. vinayādi. 032204 270,2 47652

a. 1 To be said or told [Page0373-c+ 57] or declared.

2 Worthy of relation, to be named.

Den. P. To tell, relate &c.

a. Hard, stiff.

a. Telling, speaking.

1 P. 1 To irradiate with heat, heat, inflame; abhitaptamayopi mārdavaṃ bhajate kaiva kathā śarīriṣu R. 8. 43; 19. 56.

2 To pain, distress, wound, affict. pass. To suffer intensely, be afflicted. Caus. To pain, dis- tress, afflict.

1 A species of prose composition, a connected story or narrative; ākhyāyikā kathāvat syāt ka- vervaṃśādikīrtanaṃ. asyāmanyakavīnāṃ ca vṛttaṃ gadyaṃ kvacit kvacit. kathāṃśānāṃ vyavaccheda āśvāsa iti badhyate. āryāvaktrāpavaktrāṇāṃ chaṃdasā yena kenacit. anyāpadeśenāśvāsamukhe bhāvyarthasū- canaṃ. S. D. 568. Writers on Rheto- ric usually divide prose composi- tion into kathā and ākhyāyikā and make a distinction...

a. 1 Not correspond- ing with, unfit.

2 Of unequalled form.

3 Incomparable (in a good or bad sense). Comp. kathā incom- parable talk (saṃgaṇikā), uttaravākyarahitā vāk. vīryaṃ irresistible power.

a. 1 Resting with, depend- ent on.

2 Related to, concerning; tadāśrayiṇī kathā V. 3. 10; K. 213.

3 Resorting to; R. 6. 4; Ratn. 2.

a. [dvayamatikrāṃtaḥ; nāsti dbayaṃ yasya vā] Surpassing the two (bṛ- [Page0032-a+ 59] hatkathā and vāsavadattā), or having no second or equal, incomparable, matchless; dhiyā nibaddheyamatidvayī kathā K. 5.

4 P. 1 To exert one- self; piṃḍārthamāyasyataḥ Mu. 3. 14.

2 To weary oneself, become exhausted or fatigued; nāyasyasi tapasyaṃtī Bk. 6. 69, 14. 104, 15. 54. Caus. 1 To trouble, afflict; āyāsayati māṃ jalā- bhilāṣaḥ K. 35; Mu. 7. 8; V. 2.

2 To weary, tire out, worry.

3 To injure, affect; lessen, diminish; Bk. 8. 61.

4 To string (as a bow); anāyāsitakārmukaḥ Pt. 1. 385.

raṇa,rat/a &c, see p.747. 094768 748,1 148868

ind. Not, not also, even not (not used by itself, but found used in combination with the pronoun kim or its derivatives, such as kad, kathaṃ, kva, kadā, kutaḥ to which it imparts an indefinite sense; see [Page0484-b+ 56] under kim). Note. Some regard cana to be not a separate word, but a combination of ca and na.

1 P. (dhūrvati) To hurt, injure, kill.

[gaṇ-bhāve lyuṭ] 1 Counting, calculation.

2 Adding, enumerat- ing.

3 Considering supposing, re- garding,

4 Believing, thinking.

5 Account. nā Calculation, con- sideration, regard, account; kā vā- gaṇanā sacetaneṣu apagatacetanānyapi saṃgha- ṭṭayitumalaṃ (madanaḥ) K. 157 (what need we say of &c.; cf. kathā); Me. 10, 87; R. 11. 66; Śi. 16. 59; Amaru. 64. Comp. gatiḥ f. = gaṇagati q. v. patiḥ 1. an...

ind. When, at what time; kadā gamiṣyasi-eṣa gacchāmi; kadā katha- yiṣyasi &c.; when connected with a following api it means ‘now and then’, ‘at times’, ‘sometimes’, ‘at some time’: na kadāpi never; with a following cana it means ‘at some time’, ‘one day’, ‘at one time or another’, ‘once’; ānaṃdaṃ brahmaṇo vidvānna bibheti kadācana; Ms. 2. 54, 144, 3. 25, 101; with a following cit it means ‘at one time’, ‘once upon a...

A female elephant; katha- metya matirviparyayaṃ kariṇī paṃkamivāvasīdati Ki. 2. 6; Bv. 1. 2.

mf (I) n. (fr. 1. kathā), belonging to a tale, told in a tale W. 270,2 47653 mf (I) n. knowing stories Pa1n2. 4-4, 102 270,2 47654 m. a narrator of stories W. 032205 270,2 47655

[kathāyāṃ sādhuḥ, kathā-ṭhak] A narrator of stories; also a writer of stories.

Den. P. 1 To make light, lighten (lit.); nitāṃtagurvī layayiṣya- tā dhuraṃ R. 3. 35.

2 To alleviate, lighten, lessen, mitigate; rahasi laghaye- dārabdhā vā tadāśrayiṇī kathā V. 3. 10; R. 11. 62.

3 (a) To make light of, slight, despise; Ki. 2. 18. (b) To smake inferior or insignificant; Ki. 5. 4; 13. 38.

8 U. 1 To aim at, direct.

2 To point to, refer or allude to; iyaṃ kathā māmeva lakṣīkaroti Ś. 7.

m. or n. N. of a place Ratna7v. 116252 901,1 182308 m. N. of a district adjacent to Magadha magadha Katha1s. (sometimes written lāvān) 901,1 182309 m. N. of the 3rd Lambaka lambaka of the Katha1-sarit-sa1gara kathā-sarit-sāgara. 116253 901,1 182310

a. [mah-ati] (compar. mahī- yas; superl. mahiṣṭha; nom. mahān, mahāṃ- tau, mahāṃtaḥ; acc. pl. mahataḥ) 1 Great, big, large, huge, vast; mahān siṃhaḥ, vyāghraḥ &c.

2 Ample, copious, abun- dant, many, numerous; mahājanaḥ, mahān dravyarāśiḥ.

3 Long, extended, extensive; mahāṃtau bāhū yasya sa mahābāhuḥ; so mahatī kathā, mahānadhvā.

4 Strong, powerful, mighty; as mahān vīraḥ.

5 Violent, intense, excessive;...

[mṛdorbhāvaḥ aṇ] Softness (lit. and fig.), pliancy, weakness; abhitaptamayo'pi mārdavaṃ bhajate kaiva kathā śarīriṣu R. 8. 43 ‘becomes soft’; svaśarīramārdavaṃ Ku. 5. 18.

2 Mildness, indulgence, gentleness, leniency; Bg. 16. 2.

9 P. 1 To bind, tie, fasten, chain, fetter; ātmavaṃtaṃ na karmāṇi ni- badhnaṃti dhanaṃjaya Bg. 4. 41; 9. 9; 14. 7; 18. 17; Ms. 6. 14; Ku. 5. 10.

2 To fix upon, rivet; tvayi nibaddha- rateḥ V. 4. 29, Bh. 3. 87.

3 To join, unite, connect; R. 13. 15.

4 To form, build, construct, arrange; hema- nibaddhaṃ cakraṃ, pāṣāṇacayabaddhaḥ kūpaḥ &c.

5 To write, compose, mayā nibaddheya- matidvayī kathā K. 5.

5 To...

p. p. 1 Moderate, sparing.

2 Limited.

3 Measured, meted out.

4 Regulated, adjusted. Comp. ābharaṇa a. wearing a few orna- ments, moderately adorned. āyus a. short-lived. āhāra, bhojana a. abstemious, eating little food. katha a. saying or speaking little, using measured words; Me. 83.

m. (Pra1kr2it Prakrit for prā-ghūrṇa; cf. prahuṇa) a visitor, guest Katha1s. 088400 703,2 139113 (Pan5cat.) m. id. 088401 703,2 139114 (Bha1m.) m. id. (ṇikī- kṛ, to make a visitor to, cause to reach; kathā mama śravana-prāghuṇikī-kṛtā, the tale was made to reach my ears i.e. was communicated to me Naish.) 088402 703,2 139115 m. (lit. one who goes forth deviously) wanderer, guest Pan5cat. 088403 703,2 139116

prāghuṇakaḥ, prāghuṇikaḥ, prāghū- rṇakaḥ, prāghūrṇikaḥ A guest, visitor; ci- rāparādhasmṛtimāṃsalo'pi roṣaḥ kṣaṇaprāghuṇi- ko babhūva Bv. 2. 66; śravaṇaprāghuṇikī kṛtā janaiḥ (kathā) N. 2. 56.

a. (kī f.) 1 Serv- ing as an introduction, introduc- tory, prefatory; as in prāstāvikavi- lāsa (the first or introductory part of Bhāminīvilāsa); prāstāvikaṃ vacanaṃ ‘prefatory remarks.’

2 Seasonable, opportune, timely.

3 Pertinent, relevant (to the matter in hand); aprāstāvikī mahatyeṣā kathā Māl. 2.

m. n. (g. ardharcādi) working in clay, modelling, Katha1 kathā. 640,3 127296 f. a manuscript, book Var. (cf. below) Hcat. 640,3 127297 mfn. covered, filled W. 081568 640,3 127298 n. plastering, painting W. 081569 640,3 127299

a. [sādh-ṇic yat] 1 To be effected or accomplished, to be brought about; sādhye siddhirvidhīyatāṃ H. 2. 15.

2 Feasible, practicable, attainable.

3 To be proved or de- monstrated; āptavāganumānābhyāṃ sādhyaṃ tvāṃ prati kā kathā R. 10. 28.

4 To be established or made good.

5 To be inferred or concluded; anu- mānaṃ taduktaṃ yatsādhyasādhanayorvacaḥ K. P. 10.

6 To be conquered or subdued, conquerable; Ku. 3....

mfn. (fr. saṃ-kathā) excellent in conversation g. kathādi. 151462 1198,3 241188 n. (fr. id.) talk, conversation (cf. dharma-s) Car.; Ka1ran2d2. 151463 1198,3 241189

m. (prob. patr. fr. śaṭha), see kaṭha-ś. 135265 1063,2 215097 See next. 135266 1063,2 215098 m. patr. fr. śaṭha (pl. yanāḥ), g. kuñjādi. 135267 1063,2 215099 See kāṭha-ś. 135268 1063,2 215100

[viṣ-ka] 1 Poison, venom (said to be m. also in this sense); viṣaṃ bhavatu mā bhūdvā phaṭāṭopo bhayaṃkaraḥ Pt. [Page0998-a+ 56] 1. 204.

2 Water; viṣaṃ jaladharaiḥ pītaṃ mūrchitāḥ pathikāṃganāḥ Chandr. 5. 82 (where both senses are intended).

3 The fibres of a lotus-stalk.

4 Gum- myrrh. Comp. akta, digdha a. poi- soned, envenomed. aṃkuraḥ 1. a spear.

2. a poisoned arrow. aṃtaka a. antidotal. ( kaḥ)...

p. p. [yaṃtr-kta] 1 Restrained, checked, curbed, controlled, confin- ed.

2 Fastened, bound.

3 Fetter- ed, chained.

4 Subject to. Comp. katha, vāc a. ‘tongue-tied’, forc- ed to be silent.

Vr2iddhi vṛddhi form of yathā, in comp. 109204 851,1 171372 n. (fr. yathā kathā ca) the happening under any circumstances Pa1n2. 5-1, 98. 109205 851,1 171373 f. (S3rS.) (ib. S3am2k.; fr. yathā-kāma) the acting according to will or desire, arbitrariness. 109206 851,1 171374 n. (ib. S3am2k.; fr. yathā-kāma) the acting according to will or desire, arbitrariness. 109207 851,1 171375