कर [ kara ] [ kará ]1 m. f. n. ( for 2. see p. 254 , col. 3) (√ 1. [ kṛ ] ) , a doer , maker , causer , doing , making , causing , producing (esp. ifc. ; cf. [ duḥkhakara ] , [ bhayaṃ-k ] , [ sampat-k ] , ; cf. Lat. [ cerus ] , " creator " ) Lit. AV. xii , 2 , 2 Lit. Mn. Lit. Pañcat.

helping , promoting Lit. RV. i , 116 , 13

[ kara ] m. the act of doing , making (ifc. ; cf. [ īṣatkara ] , [ su-k ] , [ duṣ-k ] , )

" the doer " , the hand Lit. RV. x , 67 , 6 Lit. MBh. Lit. Mn.

a measure (the breadth of twenty-four thumbs)

an elephant's trunk Lit. MBh. Lit. Pañcat.

the claws of a crab Lit. Hit.

symbolical expression for the number two

the lunar mansion Hasta Lit. VarBṛS.