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Apte Dictionary

V. S. Apte, The Practical Sanskrit–English Dictionary
  1. कृच्छ्रkṛcchraa.Causing trouble, painful; तथात्यजन्निमं देहं कृच्छ्राद् ग्राहाद्विमुच्यते Ms.6.78.

    [Compare Uṇ2.21]

    1. Causing trouble, painful; तथात्यजन्निमं देहं कृच्छ्राद् ग्राहाद्विमुच्यते Ms.6.78.
    2. Bad, miserable, evil.
    3. Wicked, sinful.
    4. Being in a difficult or painful situation. च्छ्रः, च्छ्रम् A difficulty, trouble, hardship, misery, calamity, danger; कृच्छ्रं महत्तीर्णः R.14.6;13.77.
    5. Bodily mortification, penance, expiation; Ms.4.222;5.21;11.16.
    6. Torment, torture.
    7. A particular kind of religious penance (प्राजापत्य); कृच्छ्राणि चीर्त्वा च ततो यथ्क्तानि द्विजोत्तमैः Mb.13. 1.64.

    Derived forms and compounds

    • -च्छ्रः Ischury.

    • -च्छ्रम् Sin.

    • -च्छ्रम् कृच्छ्रेत्, कृच्छ्रत् Indeclinable With great difficulty, painfully, miserably; लब्धं कृच्छ्रेण रक्ष्यते H.1.163.

    • -अर्धः Adjective penance lasting for six days only.

    • -कृत् Adjective Undergoing a penance; कृच्छ्रकृद्धर्मकामस्तु महतीं श्रियमाप्नुयात् Y.3. 327.

    • -प्राण

      1. Adjective
      2. one whose life is in danger.
      3. breathing with difficulty.
      4. hardly supporting life.

    • -साध्य

      1. Adjective
      2. curable with difficulty (as a patient or disease).
      3. accomplished with difficulty.

    • -सांतपनम् a kind of expiatory vow laid down in the स्मृतिs; गोमूत्रं गोमयं क्षीरं दधि सर्पिः कुशोदकम् । एकरात्रोपवासश्च कृच्छ्रं सांतपनं स्मृतम् ॥ Ms.11.212.

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  2. अकृच्छ्रakṛcchraa.Free from difficulty.

    [न. ब.]

    Free from difficulty.

    Derived forms and compounds

    • -च्छ्रम् Absence of difficulty; ease, facility.

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  3. अतिकृच्छ्रatikṛcchra

    [प्रादिdenotes that the rest of the word under consideration is to be supplied स.] Adjective Very difficult. -च्छ्रम्-च्छ्रः [अतिक्रान्तं कृच्छ्रं प्राजापत्यम्] Extraordinary hardship, a kind of severe penance to be finished in 12 nights एकैकं ग्रासमश्नीयात् त्र्यहाणि त्रीणि पूर्ववत् । त्र्यहं चोपवसेदन्त्यमतिकृच्छ्रं चरन् द्विजः ॥ Ms.11.213.

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Macdonell

A. A. Macdonell, A Practical Sanskrit Dictionary
  1. कृच्छ्रkṛcchra[krikkhrá] a. distressing, grievous, dire; severe, dangerous; wretched, miserable: -m, ad. miserably; m. n.…

    [krikkhrá] adjective distressing, grievous, dire; severe, dangerous; wretched, miserable: -m, adverb, -ial, -ially miserably; masculine neuter difficulty, distress, trouble, misery; danger; penance; kind of minor penance; ˚--, -tas, instrumental, ablative with difficulty, with much ado.

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  2. अकृच्छ्रलङ्घ्यakṛcchralaṅghya[a-krikkhra-laṅghya] fp. to be traversed without hardship.

    [a-krikkhra-laṅghya] future participle passive to be traversed without hardship.

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  3. अकृच्छ्रिन्akṛcchrin[a-krikkhrin] a. having no trouble with.

    [a-krikkhrin] adjective having no trouble with.

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  4. अतिकृच्छ्रatikṛcchra[ati-krikkhra] m. a twelve days' penance; -krita, pp. overdone; extraordinary; -kriti, f. excess; -krishna, a.…

    [ati-krikkhra] masculine a twelve days' penance; -krita, perfect passive participle overdone; extraordinary; -kriti, feminine; also equal for excess; -krishna, adjective very dark-coloured.

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Monier-Williams

Monier Monier-Williams, A Sanskrit–English Dictionary
  1. कृच्छ्रkṛcchramf(आ)n. (perhaps fr. √कृश्, and connected with कष्ट), causing trouble or pain, painful, attended with pain or…
    1. mf(आ)neuter gender (perhaps from √कृश्, and connected with कष्ट), causing trouble or pain, painful, attended with pain or labour MBh. R. Pan5cat. Sus3r.
    2. mf(आ)neuter gender being in a difficult or painful situation R. ii, 78, 14
    3. mf(आ)neuter gender bad, evil, wicked W.
    4. mn. difficulty, trouble, labour, hardship, calamity, pain, danger (often in fine compositi or 'at the end of a compound' exempli gratia, 'for example' वन-वासक्that the rest of a word is to be supplied, the difficulties of living in a forest; मूत्र-क्that the rest of a word is to be supplied quod vide; अर्थ-कृच्छ्रेषु, in difficulties, in a miserable situation MBh. iii, 65 Nal. xv, 3; प्रा*णकृच्छ्र, danger of life MBh. ii, 6 BhP.) fg-veda x, 52, 4 Nir. AitBr. etc.
    5. mn. ischury (Equivalent to मूत्र-क्that the rest of a word is to be supplied) Lexicographers
    6. mn. bodily mortification, austerity, penance Gaut. Mn. etc.
    7. mn. a particular kind of religious penance Mn. Ya1jn5.
    8. masculine gender Name of Vishn2u विष्णु MBh. xii, 12864
    9. masculine gender (in compound with a perf. Passive voice page and participle Pa1n2. 2-1, 39; vi; 3, 2.)
    10. (in compound)
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  2. अकृच्छ्रakṛcchramn. absence of difficulty
    1. mn. absence of difficulty
    2. mn. freedom from trouble.
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  3. अकृच्छ्रिन्akṛcchrinmfn. free from difficulty or trouble.

    masculine, feminine and neuter; or adjective free from difficulty or trouble.

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