kelAyati · present 3 singular
kelāyati (or, once, kelay° ; = Pali keḷāyati, not well defined PTSD ; prob. not connected with Skt. keli, but origin obscure), ( 1 ) cleans up, puts in order : so perhaps gdve. kelāyitavyam Mvy 2591 ( Jap. to be cleaned ; this seems to be the mg. of one Tib. rendering, bstsal ba ; occurs in list of words headed nisṛjā-paryāyāḥ, synonyms for nisṛjā, q.v. ); note that Pkt. kelāiya is said to mean [Page192-b] cleaned ( Sheth ); also Mmk 52.14 su-parāmṛṣṭaṃ su-kelāyitaṃ su-śobhitaṃ pṛthivīpradeśaṃ kṛtvā gomayena leptavyaḥ; ( 2 ) tends, keeps up, looks after (fields): Divy 631.5 anye sattvā(ḥ) śālikṣetrāṇi kelāyanti gopāyanti vāpayanti vā; ( 3 ) tends, cares for (persons): AsP 253.13 (te putrās tāṃ mātaraṃ …) su-kelāyitāṃ kelāyeyuḥ; LV 100.9 (kā … samarthā) bodhisattvaṃ gopāyituṃ kelayituṃ (only occurrence of kela-; no v.l. ) mamāyituṃ; Mv iii.154.13 (mānuṣikāye) ca naṃ kelāyanāya kelāyantī, so Senart , taking kel° as ‘passive in sense’, (the girl) being tended (by the ṛṣi) with human care ; but mss. kelāyanti, possibly for kelāyan ti (= iti), since he (the ṛṣi) was caring for her etc. (?); the mss. are corrupt in what follows, and the precise sense of the passage is doubtful; ( 4 ) cares for, cultivates, devotes oneself to (states of existence): Dbh 39.22 kelāyitāni mamāyitāni dhanāyitāni niketasthānāni (see s.v. niketa ), tāni sarvāṇi vigatāni bhavanti sma; ( 5 ) attends to, prepares (by cooking): Mmk 81.26 mṛdvagninā pacet, su-kelāyitāṃ sukhoṣṇaṃ saindhava-cūrṇapūtāṃ kṛtvā …; (?) Mmk 708.28 śastram aṣṭaśatajaptaṃ kṛtvā chinditaḥ kailapayitvā (! read kelāpayitvā? ger. of caus. , having caused to be cooked? object pāyasaṃ, line 26) hanet.
cares for, cherishes; treasures; is possessive of
(pr, pr) cherishes; treasures; takes care of cares for, cherishes; treasures; is possessive of Construction: kelāya + ti