kṭācu (p. 87) கிறேன், கடாசினேன், வேன், கடாச, v. a. [prop. கடாவ.] To drive--as a wedge or nail, ஆப்படிக்க. 2. To throw, fling, எறிய. 38) *

kālēym (p. 105) s. A herd of cows, பசுக் கூட்டம். 2. A fragrant kind of turmeric, கஸ் தூரிமஞ்சள். Amomum Zedoaria. 3. Buttermilk, மோர். 15) *

kāḷakaṇṭam (p. 106) s. (Sans. களகண்டம்.) The குயில் bird, the Indian Cuckoo. Wils. p. 2. KALAKANDA. 2)

kāṇṭiym (p. 104) s. [Corruption of கான் றியம்.] Intensity of heat, heat of weather as felt in the hot season, உஷ்ணம். காண்டியகாலம், s. The hot season. 10)

kimpurōṭiyam (p. 109) s. One of the thirtytwo உபநிடதம். 64) *

kīccumācceṉl (p. 113) --கீச்சுமூச்சென ல், v. noun. Buzzing, squalling, being noisy --as a house full of children, a hen and her brood, &c., கூக்குரலிடல். 12)

kiruttiyam (p. 111) s. Act, actions, performances, operation, தொழில். 2. Moral actions good or bad, involving future retributions, கன்மக்கிரியை. 3. A course of conduct, நடக்கை. 4. Work, business, employment, லௌகிகவேலை. 5. Religious rules, prescribed duties, கடமை. 6. Rites, ceremonies, &c., religious acts or practice, சடங்கு. 7. The operations of the deity--popularity in the characters of creator, preserver and destroyer; but in the mystic parts of the Agama system, the works of obscuring and enlightening the soul are superadded. Wils. p. 243. KRUTYA. தன்கிருத்தியந்தான்பார்க்கவேண்டும். Each one must perform his appropriate duties, personal, social, relative, civil, &c. கிருத்தியகர்த்தா, s. An operating deity, or a god who performs either of the five great operations in the universe. கிருத்தியகர்த்தாக்கள், s. (pl.) Agents who carry on operations in the universe; also, those of the விஞ்ஞானகலர் and பிர ளயாகலர் class of souls that have advanced so as to be cleansed from மலம், and permitted to be operative. கிருத்தியப்பிழை, s. Misdeeds, misbehaviour. 2. Failure or transgression in the performance of prescribed rites, ceremonies or other duties. கிருத்தியமில்லாதவன், s. One who does not practise the rites of the religion. ஒருகிருத்தியமுமில்லாதவன். One unemployed. கிருத்தியமுடிக்க, inf. To perform prescribed duties--as religious rites, ceremonies, &c. கிருத்தியம்பண்ண--கிருத்தியம்நடத்த inf. To perform the works of creation, &c..--as a deity, ஐந்தொழில்செய்ய. The direct object of this work is fancied to be; 1. To cleanse the soul from its moral defilements. 2. To cause it to experience the fruit of former actions. 3. To give it a temporary rest. 4. To produce an equilibrium between the good and evil actions of the soul. 5. To emancipate it from the பாசம் entanglements. (சிவ. சி.) 2. To perform works, rites, &c., சடங்குசெய்ய. 3. To perform the duties of one's calling, தொழில்செய்ய. 4. To perform the funeral rites for a deceased ancestor, உத்தரகிரியைசெய்ய. பஞ்சகிருத்தியம், s. The five operations of deity under various names, forms and modifications, viz.: 1st. சிருட்டி or படை த்தல், the work of creating or transforming matter, evolving it from the primitive Maya, producing words, furnishing the soul with its appropriate body, according to its actions in a previous birth, &c. In the popular system, this office is ascribed to Brahma. 2d.திதி or காத்தல், the work of preserving, usually ascribed to Vishnu. 3d. சங்காரம் or அழித்தல், the work of destroying, or of reducing the universe to the primitive Maya, through numerous involutions, --as earth into water, water into fire, &c. This office is ascribed to உருத்தி ரன், who by his worshippers is identified with Siva whom they consider supreme. 4th. திரோபவம் or மறைத்தல், the work of obscuration, or the veiling of the soul in moral darkness, and beclouding the understanding, so that the divine being cannot be perceived, while the mind attracted and illuded by visible and sensual objects, is excited to the performance of new actions, by which absolute liberation from பாசம் entanglements is prevented, and connection with Maya and its consequent transmigrations--except where the sanchita (சஞ்சிதம்) of former births is exhausted --is indefinitely prolonged. This is ascribed to மயேச்சுரன். 5th. அனுக்கிரகம் or அருளல், this is a work of benevolence as exerted for the benefit of the soul in furnishing it with appropriate bodies by which to expiate the guilt of former actions, though obscuring it with திரோ பவம், while it is thus working itself clear, at length withdrawing the veil and showing it that all visible and sensual objects are illusory and deceptive; also annihilating the passions and exciting disgust toward the objects of sense, and utter indifference to all mundane affairs, and thus causing entire cessation from physical and moral actions, and maturing it for final emancipation, and union with the Supreme. It is ascribed to சதாசிவம். சமுசாரகிருத்தியம், s. Domestic affairs, household business. 10) *

kāruṭam (p. 104) --காரூடம், s. Charms, incantations, &c., against poison (addressed to Garuda); one of the sixty-four கலைஞானம். Wils. p. 288. GARUDA. 2. The Garuda Purana, one of the eighteen, பதினெண்புரா ணத்தொன்று. 3. One of the thirty-two உப நிடதம், 32. உபநிடதங்களுளொன்று. (p.) 130) *

karēṇu (p. 96) s. A male of female elephant, யானை. Wils. p. 194. KAREN'U. (p.) 174)

kiṇkiṇṇeṉ (p. 109) inf. To tinkle, to jingle, to sound kin'kin'. கிண்கிண்ணென்றிரும, inf. To caugh with a wheezing sound. 46)