a. (kī f.) 1 Produced by, connected with, or dependent on, any particular cause.

2 Unusual, occasional, accidental, produced by some cause (opp. nitya). kaḥ An astrologer, prophet. kaṃ 1 An effect (opp. nimitta ‘cause’); nimittanaimi- ttikayorayaṃ kramaḥ Ś. 7. 30.

2 An oc- easional rite, a periodical ceremony.