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Every entry for a word in Apte, Monier-Williams, Macdonell and the Dhātupāṭha, with their abbreviations spelled out, and an analysis of its forms.

Results for कृच्छ्र

3 dictionaries · exact headword

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.

    Source: Apte

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)
    Source: Monier-Williams

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.

    Source: Macdonell

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