kāraṇā (4739)
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Entry 4739, Page 178, Col. 2 -
(kAraRA, kAraRA)
kāraṇā¦ (= Pali id.; essentially Buddhist word, tho cited in Skt. Lexx. and once from Daśak., BR s.v.), torture, torment, esp. applied to torments of hell: with kārayati, causes to undergo, inflicts, °ṇāṃ kārayanti Divy 376.12; °ṇāḥ (so with mss.) sattvānām ārabdhāḥ kārayitum id. 16; kāraṇāviśeṣāḥ (in hell) pratiprasrabhyante, are allayed, quieted, Divy 68.3; 138.10; 265.23 (°srabdhāḥ); 568.15; Av i.4.10--11; 10.10--11, etc.; kāraṇābhiḥ kārito, tortured with torments (in hell and elsewhere) Śikṣ 186.11; of earthly torments, kāraṇāś ca kārenti LV 259.19 (vs), they make him (the Bodhisattva, practising austerities) undergo (physical) torments; ātmanaḥ kāraṇāṃ kārayasi Śikṣ 39.3; you inflict torture on yourself.