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Entry चर्

  1. चर्carTo cause to move or go.
    1. To cause to move or go.
    2. To send, direct, move.
    3. To drive away.
    4. To cause to perform or practise.
    5. To cause to copulate.
    6. To cause to graze, pasture.
    7. To obtain knowledge of, acquaint oneself with.
    8. To doubt. Compare Latin curro.

    Derived forms and compounds

    • चर् car

      1. 1 Parasmaipada (चरति, चचार, अचारीत्, चरितुम्, चरित or sometimes चीर्ण)
      2. To walk, move, go about, roam, wander; नष्टाशङ्का हरिणशिशवो मन्दमन्दं चरन्ति Ś.1.15 (चर् may mean here 'to graze' also); इन्द्रियाणां हि चरताम् Bg.2.67; कपय- श्चेरुरार्तस्य रामस्येव मनोरथाः R.12.59; Ms.2.23,6.68; 8.236;9.36;1.55.
      3. (a) To perform, do, act; रचयति रेखाः सलिले यस्तु खले चरति सत्कारम् Bv.1.98. (b) To practise, perform, observe; चरतः किल दुश्चरं तपः R.8.79; Y.1.6; Ms.3.3.
      4. To act, behave towards, conduct oneself (Often times with Locative of the person); चरतीनां च कामतः Ms.5.9;9.287; आत्मवत्सर्वभूतेषु यश्चरेत् Mb; तस्यां त्वं साधु नाचरः R.1.76 (where the root may be also आचर्).
      5. To graze; सुचिरं हि चरन् शस्यम् H.3.9.
      6. To eat, consume.
      7. To be engaged in, be busy with.
      8. To live, continue to be, continue in any state.
      9. To spread, be diffused.
      10. To live, be, exist.
      11. To move, travel through, pervade, go along, follow. -Causal (चार- यति)

    In the Gita2·713·363·93·193·2116·226·268·11

    विहाय कामान्यः सर्वान्पुमांश्चरति निःस्पृहः ।

    vihāya kāmānyaḥ sarvānpumāṁścarati niḥspṛhaḥ, — Who abandons all desires and lives and acts free from longing, who has no “I” or “mine” (who has extinguished his individual ego in the One and lives… 2·71
    • चरतिcaratipresent 3rd person singular of the verbal root car (to move).
    • समाचरsamācaraimperative 2nd person singular of the verbal root car (to move, follow, behave, conduct oneself) with the prefixes sam and ā (to act or behave or conduct oneself towards, to practise or perform thoroughly).
    • आचरतिācaratipresent 3rd person singular of the verbal root car (to move, go) with the prefix ā (to follow, perform, do).
    • निश्चरतिniścaratipresent 3rd person singular of the verbal root car (to move) with the prefix ni (to go forth).
    • चरन्तिcarantipresent 3rd person plural of the verbal root car (to move, to behave).
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Headwords under च

Part 2 of 6 चपेट – चाण्डम्All parts
  1. च – चपलायते
  2. चपेट – चाण्डम्
  3. चाण्डाल – चिति
  4. चितिका – चुल्
  5. चुलुक – च्यूत
  6. च्योतम् – च्यौत्न