[day bhidā-bhāve aṅ] Pity, tend- erness, compassion, mercy, sym- pathy; nirguṇeṣvapi sattveṣu dayāṃ kurvaṃti sādhavaḥ H. 1. 60; R. 2. 11; yatnādapi para- kleśaṃ hartuṃ yā hṛdi jāyate. icchā bhūmisuraśreṣṭha sā dayā parikīrtitā... Comp. kara a. kind, sympathetic. ( raḥ) an epi- thet of Śiva. kūṭaḥ, kūrcaḥ epithets of Buddha. vīraḥ (in Rhet.) the sentiment of heroic compassion; the sentiment of heroism...