As a deity name
Name 258 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
Name 290 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
Name 83 of the Vishnu Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Bhishma to Yudhishthira on his deathbed
As a Hindi name
कृति · noun · feminine
करतूत । करनी · कार्य । काम · आघात । क्षति — Śabdasāgara
कृति · noun · masculine
विष्णु — Śabdasāgara
कृति · feminine
a female given name, Kriti, from Sanskrit
कृति · feminine
action, activity, doing, work; creation, piece
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi कृति — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit कृति (kṛ́ti), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer- (“to do, make”).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
1. kṛti f. the act of doing, making, performing, manufacturing, composing, ŚBr. x; ChUp.; Pañcat., Kāś. &c.
action, activity, MBh. iii, 12480; Bhāṣāp.; Tarkas.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
another metre (a stanza of four lines with twenty syllables in each)
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (4)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "kṛti" is the locative of "kṛt" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "kṛti" is the vocative of "kṛtin" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
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Dictionary citations
1. kṛti f. the act of doing, making, performing, manufacturing, composing, ŚBr. x; ChUp.; Pañcat., Kāś. &c.
action, activity, MBh. iii, 12480; Bhāṣāp.; Tarkas.
creation, work, Vop.
literary work, Mālav.; Ragh.; Pāṇ. vi, 2, 151, Kāś.
a house of relics, Divyāv.
1. kṛt mfn. only ifc. (Pāṇ. vi, 1, 182) making, doing, performing, accomplishing, effecting, manufacturing, acting, one who accomplishes or performs anything, author (see su-k˚, karma-k˚, pāpa-k˚, &c.)
kṛt m. an affix used to form nouns from roots, VPrāt.; Pāṇ. iii, 1, 93; 4, 67; vi, 1, 71; vii, 2, 8 and 11; 3, 33; viii, 4, 29
kṛtin mfn. one who acts, active, MBh. xii, 8682; xiii, 305
expert, clever, skilful, knowing, learned (with loc. or ifc.), MBh.; Ragh.; Bhartṛ. &c.
Alternative readings
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