kAraRA · ablative · kāraṇā 1
torture
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 .
because of; for the sake of (+genitive or ifc); (feminine) torture, pain; punishment
【陰】 拷問，體罰。kāraṇika,【陽】 處罰者。
(ind, ind, adv, abl sg of kāraṇa) because; for the sake (of) by means of, through, by [lit.] from cause Construction: kāre + aṇa + ā kāraṇa + ā
(fem, fem, abstr, from kāreti) torture; physical punishment torture, bodily punishment [lit.] causing to do Construction: kāre + aṇa + ā kāraṇa + ā