As a deity name
Name 257 of the Hanuman Sahasranāma — Rasvin Samhita / Brahmanda Purana, as taught by Lord Ram / Sages
Name 543 of the Narasimha Sahasranāma — Brahmanda Purana / Narasimha Purana, as taught by Sages to Assembly of Devotees
Name 166 of the Rama Sahasranāma — Padma Purana / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 128 of the Surya Sahasranāma — Bhavishya Purana, as taught by Lord Brahma / Sages
As a Hindi name
क्या
initial interrogative particle
क्या · feminine,masculine
what?; such, what, how; used after a noun or तो to indicate something being not as great.
a Hindi word, a tadbhava: evolved from the Sanskrit through Prakrit किम् — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀓𑀺𑀁 (kiṃ), 𑀓𑀺 (ki), from Sanskrit किम् (kim, “what, which”). Compare Punjabi ਕੀ (kī), Gujarati કિયું (kiyũ), Marathi की (kī), Bengali কী (ki), Assamese কি (ki) or Kashmiri کیاہ.” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
kim ind. (fr. 1. ki, originally nom. and acc. sg. n. of 2. ka, q.v.), what? how? whence? wherefore? why?
kim is much used as a particle of interrogation like the Lat. num, an, sometimes translatable by ‘whether?’ but oftener serving only like a note of interrogation to mark a question (e.g. kiṃ vyādhā vane 'smin saṃcaranti, ‘do hunters roam about in this wood?’ In an interrogation the verb, if uncompounded with a preposition, generally retains its accent after kim, Pāṇ. viii, 1, 44). To this sense may be referred the kim expressing inferiority, deficiency, &c. at the beginning of compounds (e.g. kiṃ-rājan, what sort of king? i.e. a bad king, Pāṇ. ii, 1, 64; v, 4, 70)
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a cause (in phil. i.e. that which is invariably antecedent to some product, cf. samavāyi-k˚, asamavāyi-k˚, nimitta-k˚)
Scripturally attested Verified split — attested membersMultiple readings (5)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "kāraṇāya" is the dative of "kāraṇa" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
1. kāraṇa n. cause, reason, the cause of anything (gen., also often loc.), KātyŚr.; MBh.; Mn. &c.
instrument, means
Alternative readings
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