kAraRaM [ kf-Ric lyuw ] 1 A cause, reason; kAraRakopAH kuwuMbinyaH M. 1. 18 ; R. 1. 74 ; Bg. 13. 21 ; oft. with loc. of the effect; Bh. 2. 84. 2 Ground, motive, object kiM punaH kAraRaM Mbh. ; Y. 2. 203 ; Ms. 8. 347 ; kAraRamAnuzIM tanuM R. 16. 22. 3 An instrument, means; Y. 3. 20 , 65. 4 (In Nyāya phil. ). A cause, that which is invariably antecedent to some product and is not otherwise constituted; or, according to Mill, ‘the antecedent or concurrence of antecedents on which the effect is invariably and unconditionally consequent’; according to Naiyāyikas it is of three kinds; (1) samavAyi (intimate or inherent); as threads in the case of cloth; (2) asamavAyi (non-intimate or non-inherent), as the conjunction of the threads in the case of cloth; (3) nimitta (instrumental) as the weaver's loom. 5 ( pb ) The generative cause, creator, father; Ku. 5. 81. 6 An element, elementary matter; Y. 3. 148 ; Bg. 18. 13. 7 The origin or plot of a play, poem, &c. 8 An organ of sense. 9 The body. 10 A sign, document, proof or authority; Ms. 11. 85. 11 That on which any opinion or judgment is based. 12 Action. 13 A legal instrument or document. 14 Agency, instrumentality. 15 A deity (as the proximate or remote cause of creation.) 16 Killing, injuring. — RA 1 Pain, agony; Ve. 5. 32. 2 Casting into hell. 3 Urging, instigation. ( kAraRAMt for the reason that; dveza° on account of hatred; matkAraRAt for my sake; Pt. 1. 22. ) Comp. — anvita a. having a cause or reason. — uttaraM a special plea, denial of the cause of complaint; admission of the charge generally, but denial of the actual issue (in law). — kAraRaM an elementary or primary cause; an atom; Ki. 18. 35. — gata a. referred to its cause, resolved into its principles. — guRaH a quality of the cause. — balavat a. strong by motives; Pt. 5. 29. — BUta a. 1 caused. 2 forming the cause. — mAlA a figure of speech, ‘a chain of causes’; yaTottaraM cet pUrvasya pUrvasyArTasya hetutA . tadA kAraRamAlA syAt K. P. 10 ; e. g. Bg. 2. 62 , 63 ; also S. D. 728. — vAdin m. a complainant, plaintiff. — vAri n. the original water produced at the beginning of the creation. — vihIna a. without a cause. — SarIraM (in Vedānta phil. ) the inner rudiment of the body, causal frame.