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कारापक (kArApaka)

 
Spoken Sanskrit
English
कारापक kArApaka
m.
agent
Apte
English
कारापकः [kārāpakḥ], A person appointed to look after the construction of a temple or a building.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
कारापक
m.
(prob.) an agent (cf. next),
Inscr.
Apte Hindi
Hindi
कारापकः
पुं*
- "कार+आपकः, त* स*"
"भवन के निर्माण कार्य का अधीक्षक, काम की देखभाल करने वाला"
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
kārāpaka, m. (cf. Pali id.
to kārāpayati, with -aka), he who causes to act, used in a formulaic list of terms applied to the (heretically alleged) ātman, and as such rejected: Mvy 〔4678〕 (follows kāraka)
Mv 〔iii.447.11, 16〕 (kārako vā) °pako utthāpako
ŚsP 〔120.18〕 °pakaḥ °paka iti vyavahriyate sa ca yathābhūtaṃ parigaveṣyamāṇo nopalabhyate.
Indian Epigraphical Glossary
English
Kārāpaka (EI 19
IA 19), Prakrit
same as Sanskrit
Kāraka
an agent.
Schmidt Nachtrage zum Sanskrit Worterbuch
German
*कारापक = कारयितर्, Mahāvy. 207.
°कारापक m. der erbauen läßt, Prabandh. 260, 3.