1. Doing, performing, or execution.
2. Business, undertaking, work, or labor.
3. An act or action.
4. Bodily action or exercise of the limbs.
5. A literary work.
6. Medical treatment, practice, or applying a remedy.
7. A religious rite, ceremony, or sacrifice.
8. Obsequies or rites performed immediately after death.
9. Purificatory rites such as ablution.
10. Judicial investigation by human or superhuman means.
11. Grammatical action or a verb.
12. A noun of action.
13. Atonement.
14. Disquisition or study.
15. Means, expedient, instrument, or implement.
क्रिया (kriyā) [Printed book page 0260-c] क्रिया (kriyā) kriyā, f. (fr. rt. 1.
kṛ), doing, per-
forming, performance; business; an act, action, un-
dertaking; activity; work; labour; bodily action,
exercise of the limbs; a literary work; medical
Page0261-a+ 81 treatment or practice; applying a remedy, cure (e. g.
samakriya-tva, the being treated according to one
and the same system of medicine;
viṣamakriya- tva, the being treated according to different methods);
a religious rite or ceremony, sacrificial act, sacrifice;
obsequies, rites performed immediately after death;
purificatory rites, as ablution &c. (religious action is
sometimes personified as a daughter of Dakṣa and
wife of Dharma, or a daughter of Kardama and wife
of Kratu); judicial investigation by human means, as
by witnesses, documents, &c., or by superhuman or
ordeals of various kinds; (in grammar) action (as
the general idea expressed by any verb); a verb, (ac-
cording to later grammarians a verb is of two kinds,
sakarma-kriyā, active, and
akarma-kriyā, intran-
sitive); a noun of action; native lexicographers give
also the following meanings to
kriyā, — atonement;
disquisition; study; means, expedient; instrument,
implement.
—Kriyā-kara, as, m. one who per-
forms an action, a student.
—Kriyā-kartṛ, tā, m.
the doer of an action, an agent.
—Kriyā-kalāpa, as, m. title of a grammar; the great body of cere-
monies enjoined in the Hindū laws, a number of
actions of any kind; all the particulars or points of
any business.
—Kriyā-kāra, as, ī, am, one who
does any act, an agent, a performer; (
as), m. a
beginner, a novice, a tyro, a student; an agreement.
—Kriyā-kaumudī, f. title of a work by Govindā-
nanda.
—Kriyā-tantra, am, n. ‘a Tantra of action,’
one of the four classes of Tantras with Buddhists.
—Kriyā-dveṣin, ī, iṇī, i, one who is averse to
the part of a lawsuit or judicial trial called
kriyā, i. e. to witnesses, documents, ordeals, &c. (
ī), m.
one of the five kinds of witnesses, he whose testi-
mony is hurtful to the cause.
—Kriyā-dvaita, am, n. efficient cause, as resigning all to God.
—Kriyā- nibandha, title of a work.
—Kriyā-nirdeśa, as, m.
evidence.
—Kriyānurūpa (°yā-an°), as, ā, am, conformable to the act, according to the action.
—Kriyānvita (°yā-an°), as, ā, am, practising
ritual observances.
—Kriyā-paṭu, us, us, u, clever,
dextrous.
—Kriyā-patha, as or
am, m. or n. (?),
manner of medical treatment or application of reme-
dies.
—Kriyā-pada, am, n. a verb.
—Kriyā-para, as, ā, am, attentive to or diligent in the performance
of one's duties.
—Kriyāpavarga (°yā-ap°), as, m.
end of an affair, liberation from ceremonial acts.
—Kriyā-pāda, as, m. the third division of a suit
at law, witnesses, written documents and other proofs
adduced by the complainants, the rejoinder of the
plaintiff.
—Kriyā-prasaṅga, as, m. course of pro-
ceeding.
—Kriyā-phala, am, n. result or conse-
quence of acts.
—Kriyābhyupagama (°yā-abh°), as, m. special compact or agreement.
—Kriyām- budhi (°yā-am°), is, m. title of a work of Prāṇa-
kṛṣṇa.
—Kriyā-yoga, as, m. the connection with
an action or verb; the employment of expedients or
instruments; the practical form of the Yoga system
of philosophy, devotion by due performance of the
duties of every day life, active devotion.
—Kriyāyoga- sāra, as, m. a section of the Padma-purāṇa.
—Kriyā- lopa, as, m. discontinuance or loss of any of the
essential ceremonies of the Hindū religion.
—Kriyā- vat, ān, atī, at, one who performs an action, active,
busy, engaged in a business, understanding business,
fit for it, possessed of worldly knowledge; performing
ceremonies in the right manner, celebrating religious
rites.
—Kriyā-vaśa, as, ā, am, subject to the in-
fluence of acts; (
as), m. necessity, necessary influence
of acts done or to be done.
—Kriyāvasanna (°yā- av°), as, ā, am, one who loses a lawsuit through the
statements of the witnesses &c.
—Kriyā-vācaka, as, ā, am, or
kriyā-vācin, ī, inī, i, expressing an
action (as a verbal noun).
—Kriyā-vādin, ī, m. a
plaintiff; one who states the arguments in a lawsuit.
—Kriyā-vidhi, is, m. a rule of action; conduct of
affairs, mode of performing any rite.
—Kriyāvidhi- jña, as, ā, am, conversant with business, under-
standing the ritual &c.
—Kriyā-viśāla, am, n. title
of the thirteenth of the fourteen Pūrvas or most
ancient Jaina writings.
—Kriyā-viśeṣaṇa, am, n.
Page0261-b+ 78 that which defines an action more closely; an adverb.
—Kriyā-śakti, is, f. capability to act; the power
of action.
—Kriyā-samabhihāra, as, m. repetition
of any act, doing anything repeatedly.
—Kriyā-sāra, as, m. title of a work.
—Kriyā-sthānaka-vicāra, as, m. title of a Jaina work.
—Kriyendriya (°yā- in°), as, m. an organ of action, as the hand, foot,
voice, organ of generation and that of excretion;
also called
karmendriya, q. v.
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