कृति [ kṛti ] [ kṛ́ti ]1 f. the act of doing , making , performing , manufacturing , composing Lit. ŚBr. x Lit. ChUp. Lit. Pañcat. Lit. Kāś.

  action , activity Lit. MBh. iii , 12480 Lit. Bhāshāp. Lit. Tarkas.

  creation , work Lit. Vop.

  literary work Lit. Mālav. Lit. Ragh. Lit. Pāṇ. 6-2 , 151 Lit. Kāś.

  a house of relics Lit. DivyA7v.

  " magic " see [ -kara ]

  a witch ( cf. [ kṛtyā ] ) Lit. Devīm.

  a kind of Anushṭubh metre (consisting of two Pādas of twelve syllables each and a third Pāda of eight syllables) Lit. RPrāt.

  another metre (a stanza of four lines with twenty syllables in each) Lit. RPrāt.

  (hence) the number twenty Lit. VarBṛ.

  a collective N. of the metres [ kṛti ] , [ prak ] , [ āk ] , [ vik ] , [ saṃk ] , [ abhik ] , and [utkṛti ]

  a square number Lit. VarBṛ.

  (in dram.) confirmation of any obtainment Lit. Sāh. Lit. Daśar. Lit. Pratāpar.

  N. of the wife of Saṃhrāda and mother of Pañca-jana Lit. BhP. vi , 18 , 13

  [ kṛti ] m. N. of several persons Lit. MBh. ii , 320 and 1882 Lit. Hariv. Lit. BhP. Lit. MārkP.

  of a pupil of Hiraṇya-nābha Lit. VāyuP.