1. A fixed or right point of time, space of time, or time in general.
2. The proper time or fit season.
3. Weather.
4. Destiny or fate.
5. Death or the time of death.
6. A period of time.
7. Measure of time or prosody.
8. A section or part.
[Printed book page 0225-b] काल (kāla) 2 .
kāla, as, m. (fr. rt. 3.
kal), a fixed
or right point of time, a space of time, time in general,
(in the Ṛg-veda this word occurs only once, in the
Brāhmaṇas oftener); the proper time or fit season for
(with gen., dat., loc., pot., &c., e. g.
kālaḥ pra- sthānasya or
prasthānāya or
prasthāne, time for
departure;
kriyā-kālaḥ, time for action;
na ayaṃ kālo vilambitum, this is not the time to delay;
kālo yad bhuñjīta bhavān, it is time for you to
eat); the weather; time as leading to events, the
causes of which are imperceptible to the mind of
man; destiny, fate; time as destroying all things;
death, time of death, often personified and repre-
sented with the attributes of Yama, regent of the
dead, or even identified with him, (hence
kālam i or
kālaṃ kṛ, to die;
kāla-samāyukta, dead;
kāla in this sense is frequently connected with
antaka and
mṛtyu, e. g.
abhyadhāvata prajāḥ kāla ivāntakaḥ, he attacked the people like Time the
destroyer, cf.
kālāntaka below;
kāla personified
is also a Devarṣi in Indra's court, and a son of
Dhruva); a period of time, time of the world;
measure of time, prosody; a section, a part;
deśa- kālau, the right place and the right time, place and
time;
kālaṃ kṛ, to appoint or fix a time;
ubhau kālau, both times, sunrise and sunset;
ṣaṣṭhe kāle 'hnaḥ, at the sixth hour of the day, at midday;
ṣaṣṭhānna-kāla, one who eats only at the sixth
meal-time, i. e. who passes five meals without eating
and has no meal till the evening of the third
day; or without
anna, e. g.
caturtha-kālam, at the
fourth meal-time, i. e. at the evening of the second
day;
ṣaṣṭhe kāle, at the evening of the third day;
ṛtu-kāla, the time of a woman's courses;
gacchatā kālena, in the course of time, after some time;
nitya-kālam, constantly, always;
dīrgha-kālam, dur-
ing a long time;
dīrgheṇa kāleṇa, after a long time;
kālena, in the course of time;
dīrghasya kālasya, after a long time;
kasyacit kālasya, after some
time;
kālāt or
kālatas, in the course of time &c.
[cf. Goth. hveila; Mod. Germ. weile; Gr. καιρός,
ὥρα (?); Lat. hora, calen-dœ: cf. also Gr. κήρ
Hib. ceal, ‘death and everything terrible.’]
—Kāla- karaṇa, am, n. appointing or fixing a time.
—Kāla- karman, a, n. death.
—Kāla-kalpa, as, ā, am, like death, fatal, deadly.
—Kāla-kāra, as, ī, am, making or producing time.
—Kāla-kārita, as, ā, am, effected or brought about by or in time.
—Kāla- kuṇṭha, as, m. an epithet of Yama.
—Kāla-kūṭa, as, am, m. n. a deadly poison; see s. v.
—Kāla-kṛt, t, m. the sun (producing the times, i. e. seasons).
—Kāla-kṛta, as, ā, am, produced by time; fixed;
appointed (as to time); lent or deposited by a giver
for a certain time; (
as), m. the sun; time (?).
—Kāla- kaumudī, f., N. of a work.
—Kāla-krama, as, m.
lapse of time;
kāla-krameṇa, in process of time.
—Kāla-kriyā, f. fixing a time; title of the second
chapter of the Sūrya-Siddhānta; death.
—Kāla- kṣepa, as, m. allowing time to pass away, delay,
loss of time; spending or passing the time;
akāla- kṣepam, ind. without delay.
—Kāla-gati, is, f. the
lapse of time.
—Kāla-granthi, is, m. ‘a joint of
time,’ a year.
—Kāla-ghātin, ī, inī, i, killing in the
course of time, i. e. by degrees, slowly (as a poison).
—Kāla-cakra, am, n. the wheel of time, time
represented as a wheel, which always turns round; a
given revolution of time, a cycle; according to the
Jainas, the wheel of time has twelve Aras or spokes
and turns round once in 2000, 000,000,000, 000
Sāgaras of years [cf.
ava-sarpiṇī and
ut-sarpiṇī];
the wheel of fortune, the vicissitudes of life, the wheel
of time or fate is sometimes regarded as a weapon;
with Buddhists, a Tantra; (
as), m. an epithet of
the sun.
—Kāla-codita, as, ā, am, summoned by
the angel of death.
—Kālacodita-karman, ā, ā, a, acting under the influence of fate.
—Kāla-jña, as, ā, am, one who knows the fixed times or seasons;
(
as), m. an astrologer; a cock.
—Kāla-jñāna, am, n., N. of a medical work; N. of a work by Malla-
deva on the symptoms of diseases; a medical work
by Śambhūnātha.
—Kāla-jñānin, ī, m. an epithet
Page0225-c+ 81 of Śiva.
—Kāla-tattvārṇava (°va-ar°), ‘the ocean
of the truth of time,’ title of a work.
—Kāla-taraṅga, the first part of the Smṛty-artha-sāgara by Nṛsiṃha.
—Kāla-tā, f. seasonableness, timeliness.
—Kāla- tulya, as, ā, am, like death, deadly.
—Kāla-traya, am, n. the three times, i. e. past, present, and future.
—Kāla-daṇḍa, as, m. the staff of death, death.
—Kāla-damanī, f. an epithet of Durgā.
—Kāla- dharma, as, m. or
kāla-dharman, ā, m. the line
of conduct suitable to any time or season; the law,
rule or operation of time, death, dying; influence of
time, seasonableness; effects proper to the time or
season.
—Kāla-dhāraṇā, f. prolongation of time.
— 2.
kāla-nara, as, m. ‘a time-man,’ i. e. in astro-
logy the figure of a man's body on the various limbs
of which the twelve signs of the zodiac are distributed
for the purpose of foretelling future destinies; [cf.
kāla-puruṣa.]
—Kāla-nātha, as, m. an epithet of
Śiva.
—Kāla-nidhi, is, m. an epithet of Śiva.
—Kāla-niyoga, as, m. the command of time, fate,
destiny.
—Kāla-nirūpaṇa, am, n. chronology.
—Kāla-nirṇaya, as, m. ‘determination or fixing of
times,’ title of a work, also called
kāla-mādhavīya, by Mādhavācārya.
—Kāla-nirṇaya-dīpikā, f. title
of a metrical recension of the same work.
—Kāla- nirṇaya-prakāśa, as, m. title of a work on juris-
prudence (?).
—Kāla-nirvāha, as, m. providing for
daily wants.
—Kāla-nemi, is, f. the felly or rim of
the wheel of time, regarded as a terrible weapon;
(
as), m., N. of an Asura slain by Kṛṣṇa, iden-
tified with Kaṃsa; N. of a Rakṣas; N. of a son
of the Brāhman Yajña-soma.
—Kāla-nemin, ī, m.,
N. of an Asura; [cf. the preceding.]
—Kālanemi- ripu, us, m. or
kālanemi-han, ā, m. or
kālanemi- hara, as, m. or
kālanemy-ari, is, m. an epithet of
Kṛṣṇa or Viṣṇu, the destroyer of the Asura Kāla-
nemi.
—Kāla-pakva, as, ā, am, ripened by time,
i. e. spontaneously (opposed to
agni-pakva).
—Kāla- patha, as, m., N. of a son of Viśvā-mitra.
—Kāla- parivāsa, as, m. standing for a time (so as to be-
come stale or fermented).
—Kāla-pāśa, as, m. the
noose of Yama or death.
—Kāla-pāśika, as, m. a
hangman, an executioner, (one who has the noose of
Yama.)
—Kāla-puruṣa, as, m., cf. 2.
kāla-nara. —Kāla-prabhāta, am, n. the dawning of the best
season, the two months following the rainy season,
autumn; the sultry season.
—Kāla-prarūḍha, as, ā, am, over-blown, over-ripe.
—Kāla-bhakṣa, as, m. an epithet of Śiva.
—Kāla-bhṛt, t, m. the sun;
[cf.
kāla-kṛt.]
—Kāla-mayūkha, as, m. title of a
part of Bhāskara.
—Kāla-mahiman, ā, m. or
kāla- māhātmya, am, n. the power or sway of time.
—Kāla-mādhava-kārikā, f. title of a work.
—Kāla- mūrti, is, f. time personified.
—Kāla-yāpa, as, m.
allowing time to pass away, putting off, delaying,
procrastination.
—Kāla-yāpana, am, n. passing
away time, putting off, delaying.
—Kāla-yoga, as, m. connection with time, with fate or destiny; fate,
destiny.
—Kāla-yogin, ī, inī, i, reigning over des-
tiny, an epithet of Śiva.
—Kāla-yodhin, ī, inī, i, fighting, or one who fights in season or at the proper
time.
—2. kāla-rātri, is or
ī, f. the night of all-destroy-
ing time, the night of destruction at the end of the
world, often personified or identified with Durgā or
with one of the Śaktis of Durgā; a particular night
in the life of man, on the seventh day of the seventh
month of the seventy-seventh year, after which period
a man is exempt from attention to the usual ordi-
nances; N. of a Brāhman woman, familiar with magic.
—Kāla-rūpa-dhṛṣ, k, k, k (the last member of
the compound being by some referred to rt.
dhṛ or
dṛh), wearing the form of Yama or death.
—Kāla- vat, ān, atī, at, connected with time.
—Kāla-vikra- ma, as, m. power of time, death.
—Kāla-vidhāna, am, n. title of a work.
—Kāla-vidhavaṃsana, as, m.
(scil.
rasa) a term for a particular drug or medicine.
—Kāla-viprakarṣa, as, m. prolongation of time.
—Kāla-viveka, as, m., N. of a work by Jīmūta-
vahana.
—Kāla-vṛddhi, is, f. periodical interest,
payable monthly, &c.
—Kāla-vega, as, m., N. of a
Nāga, a son of Vāsuki.
—Kāla-vyāpin, ī, inī, i, Page0226-a+ 80 filling all time, everlasting.
—Kāla-saṃrodha, as, m. keeping back or retaining for a long time; lapse
of a long period of time.
—Kāla-saṃhitā, f., N. of
an astrological work.
—Kāla-sadṛśa, as, ī, am, opportune, seasonable; deathlike.
—Kāla-sampanna, as, ā, am, effected by time, dated, bearing a date.
—Kāla-sāhvaya, as, ā, am, named after Kāla.
—Kāla-sūtra or
kāla-sūtraka, am, n. the thread
of time or death; N. of one of the twenty-one hells.
—Kāla-svarūpa, as, ā, am, having the very form
of death (applied to any terrific object).
—Kālā- kṛṣṭa (°la-āk°), as, ā, am, led to death or de-
struction, drawn to or by one's fate; produced or
brought about by time.
—Kālākṣarika, as, m. (fr.
kāla+akṣara), a scholar, a pupil who has begun
to read.
—Kālāgni (°la-ag°), is, m. the fire that is
to destroy the world; the conflagration at the end of
time.
—Kālāgni-rudra, as, m. Rudra regarded as
the fire that is to destroy the world; (scil.
rasa) N.
of a particular drug or medicine.
—Kālāgnirudro- paniṣad (°ra-up°), t, f., N. of several Upaniṣads.
—Kālātīta (°la-at°), as, ā, am, elapsed, passed by.
—Kālātmaka (°la-āt°), as, ikā, am, depending on
time or destiny.
—Kālātyaya (°la-at°), as, m. lapse
of time, loss or destruction by lapse of time.
—Kā- lātyayopadiṣṭa (°ya-up°), as, ā, am, taught or
rectified by the lapse of time; term for a vain argu-
ment (
hetv-ābhāsa), also called
atīta-kāla and
bā- dhita.
—Kālādarśa (°la-ād°), as, m. ‘the mirror of
time,’ title of a work.
—Kālādhyakṣa (°la-adh°), as, m. the overseer or leader of time, an epithet of
the sun.
—Kālānala (°la-an°), as, m. the fire of
all-destroying time, the universal conflagration at
the end of all things; N. of a son of Sabhā-nara.
—Kālāntaka (°la-an°), as, m. time regarded as
the god of death.
—Kālāntaka-yama, as, m. all-
destroying time in the form of Yama.
—Kālāntara (°la-an°), am, n. interval, intermediate time; period,
process of time; a former or another time.
—Kālān- tara-kṣama, as, ā, am, able to bear an interval
of delay.
—Kālāntara-viṣa, as, ā, am, poison-
ous at certain times; (
as), m. a poisonous animal,
venomous only when enraged or alarmed, as a rat &c.
—Kālāntarāvṛtta (°ra-āv°), as, ā, am, hidden
or concealed by time.
—Kālāntarāvṛtti-śubhā- śubha (°bha-aś°), āni, n. pl. good and evil things
occurring within the revolutions of time.
—Kālā- vadhi (°la-av°), is, m. a fixed or appointed time.
—Kālāvyavāya (°la-av°), as, m. no interval of
time.
—Kālāśuddhi, is, m. or
kālāśauca (°la-aś°), am, n. season of mourning or ceremonial impurity,
as at the birth of a child, the death of a relation &c.,
when it is considered unlawful to perform any religious
rites.
—Kāle-ja, as, ā, am, born or produced at a
fixed time or at due time.
—Kālottara (°la-ut°), N.
of a work.
—Kālotpādita (°la-ut°), as, ā, am, pro-
duced in due season.
—Kālopta (°la-up°), as, ā, am, sown in due season.
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