kaTA [ kaT ni° a ] 1 A tale, story; °prAvIRyaM U. 4 historical knowledge. 2 A fable, feigned story; kaTAcCalena bAlAnAM nItistadiha kaTyate H. Pr. 8 3 An account, allusion, mention; kaTApi Kalu pApAnAmalamaSreyase yataH Śi. 2. 40. 4 Talk, conversation, speech; praTamaM kftAM kaTAM Ś. 4. 1. 5 A variety of prose composition, often distinguished from AKyAyikA ; ( prabaMDakalpanAM stokasatyAM prAjYAH kaTAM viduH . paraMparASrayA yA syAt sA matAKyAyikA buDEH .. ); see under AKyAyikA also. 6 (In phil. ) Disputation. kA kaTA or kaTA with prati (what mention) is often used in the sense of ‘what need one say of’, ‘not to mention’, ‘to say nothing of’, ‘how much more’, or ‘how much less’; kA kaTA bARasaMDAne jyASabdenEva dUrataH . huMkAreReva DanuzaH sa hi viGnAnapohati Ś. 3. 1 ; aBitaptamayopi mArdavaM Bajate kEva kaTA SarIrizu R. 8. 43 ; AptavAganumAnAByAM sADyaM tvAM prati kA kaTA 10. 28 ; Ve. 2. 25. Comp. — anurAgaH taking pleasure in conversation, attention. — aMtaraM 1 the course of conversation; smartavyosmi kaTAMtarezu BavatA Mk. 7. 7. 2 another tale. — avaSeza or kaTASeza a. one of whom only the narrative remains, i. e. deceased, dead. — AkramaH the commencement of a conversation. — AraMBaH commencement of a tale. — ArAmaH garden of fable. — AlApaH speech, conversation. — udayaH the beginning of a tale. — udDAtaH 1 the second of the five kinds of prastAvanA , where the first character enters the stage after over-hearing and repeating either the words of the manager ( sUtraDAra ) or their sense; see S. D. 290 ; e. g. in Ratn. , Ve. or Mudrārākṣasa. 2 commencement of a tale or narration; AkumArakaTodDAtaM SAligopyo jaguryaSaH R. 4. 20. — upakaTa — upAKyAnaM narration, relation, telling a story. — CalaM 1 the guise of a fable. 2 giving a false account. — nAyakaH , puruzaH the hero or leading character of a story; rAmAyaRa° U. 4 , 6. — paWiM 1 the introductory part of a tale or story. 2 N. of the first laMbaka or book of the kaTAsaritsAgara . — prabaMDaH ( pb ) a tale, fiction, fable. — prasaMga a. 1 talkative, talking much and foolishly. 2 mad, foolish. — (gaH) 1 conversation, talk or course of conversation; nAnAkaTAprasaMgAvasTitaH H. 1 ; kaTAprasaMgena vivAdaM kila cakratuH Ks. 22. 181 ; N. 1. 35. 2 a curer of poisons ( vizavEdya ); kaTAprasaMgena janErudAhftAt Ki. 1. 24 (where the word is used in sense 1 also). — prARaH 1 an actor. 2 a professional storyteller. — muKaM the introductory portion of a story; Pt. 1. — yogaH course of conversation, talk, discourse. — viparyAsaH changing the course of a story. — virakta a. reserved, taciturn, disliking conversation. — Seza a. see kaTAvaSeza .