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कल्पनाkalpanā

कल्पना (kalpanā) is a Sanskrit word meaning forming, fashioning, making, performing, inventing or forming in the imagination, cutting or working with edge tools, name of a religious ceremony, anything put on for ornament, making, manufacturing, or preparing. Its 16 recorded definitions are grouped into 8 contexts, among them Making, Performing, Arranging, and Action, Mental Creation, Imagination, and Assumption, Cutting and Cutting Tools.

Definitions
16
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Meanings by context

Making, Performing, Arranging, and Action

4 definitions
forming, fashioning, making, performing

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

making, manufacturing, or preparing

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

fixing, settling, arranging

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

a deed, work, or act

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Mental Creation, Imagination, and Assumption

4 definitions
inventing or forming in the imagination

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

creating in the mind, feigning, or assuming something to be real

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

hypothesis

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

1. Fixing or settling. 2. Performing. 3. Forming or arranging. 4. Decorating or ornamenting. 5. Fabrication. 6. Composition. 7. Invention. 8. Forgery. 9. A fancy, idea, or mental image. 10. Contrivance. 11. A specific principle of postulation in Mimansa philosophy. 12. Imagination.

— Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Cutting and Cutting Tools

2 definitions
cutting or working with edge tools

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

a pair of scissors or shears

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Ornamentation and Decoration

2 definitions
anything put on for ornament

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

caparisoning an elephant

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Form, Shape, or Image

1 definition
form, shape, image

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Practice or Custom

1 definition
practice

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Proper Name (Mythological Figure)

1 definition
a mindborn mother

— The Purana Index

Religious Ceremony

1 definition
Name of a religious ceremony

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

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Definitions on this page come from 3 works: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), The Purana Index, Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.