रचनाracanā

रचना (racanā) is a Sanskrit word meaning making, arranging, or composing, arrangement or management, accomplishment or performance, preparation, production, or fabrication, a literary work or composition, style. Its 18 recorded definitions are grouped into 7 contexts, among them General Act of Creation, Arrangement, or Preparation, Invention or Mental/Artificial Creation, Literary Work or Style.

Etymology: E. रच to make, to manufacture, aff. युच्
Definitions: 18

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Meanings by context

General Act of Creation, Arrangement, or Preparation

8 definitions

making, arranging, or composing

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

1. Arrangement or management. 2. Accomplishment or performance. 3. Preparation, production, or fabrication.

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

stringing flowers or garlands

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

1. Orderly arrangement or disposition. 2. Decorating or dressing the hair. 3. Weaving wreaths, chaplets, or stringing flowers. 4. Military array or the arrangement of troops. 5. Literary composition in verse or prose. 6. Suspending decorative garlands at doors on festival occasions. 7. Making or preparing anything.

— Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Orderly arrangement. 2. Preparation. 3. Composition. 4. Decoration. 5. Military array.

— Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Arrangement, disposition, or preparation. 2. Performance or accomplishment. 3. A literary composition. 4. Dressing the hair. 5. An array or arrangement of troops. 6. A mental creation or artificial image.

— Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Orderly arrangement. 2. Hair decoration. 3. Weaving wreaths or stringing flowers. 4. Military array of troops. 5. Literary composition in verse or prose. 6. Suspending festival garlands at a doorway. 7. Making or preparing anything.

— Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Making or work. 2. Orderly arrangement. 3. Dressing of the hair. 4. Stringing flowers or suspending garlands. 5. Arrangement of troops. 6. Composition or literary composition.

— Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Invention or Mental/Artificial Creation

2 definitions

contrivance, invention

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

an artificial image created by the mind

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Literary Work or Style

2 definitions

a literary work or composition

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

style

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Personal Adornment or Grooming

2 definitions

wearing a garment

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

dressing the hair

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Proper Name

2 definitions

the wife of Tvashtri

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

a Daitya lady and queen of Tvashta

— The Purana Index

Military Array

1 definition

array of troops

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Specific Act of Crafting

1 definition

fixing the feathers on an arrow

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

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Definitions on this page come from 7 works: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary, The Purana Index, Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.