क्रूरkrūraa.Cruel, wicked, hard-hearted, pitiless; तस्याभिषेकसंभारं कल्पितं क्रूरनिश्चया R.12.4; Me.17; Ms.1.9; तानहं…
[कृत-रक् धातोः क्रूः; Uṇ.2.21]
Derived forms and compounds
तानहं द्विषतः क्रूरान्संसारेषु नराधमान् ।
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[कृत-रक् धातोः क्रूः; Uṇ.2.21]
Derived forms and compounds
-रः, -रम् Boiled rice.
-रः
-रम्
-आकृति Adjective terrible in form (-तिः) epithet of Rāvaṇa.
-आचारः Adjective following cruel or savage practices; Ms.4.246.
-आत्मन् the planet Saturn.
-आशय
-कर्मन्
-कर्मकृत् Masculine a rapacious animal; Ms.12.58.
-कृत् Adjective fierce, cruel, unrelenting;
-कोष्ठ Adjective having costive bowels (unaffected by strong purgatives).
-गन्ध sulphur.
-चरित, -चेष्ठित Adjective cruel, ferocious.
-दृश्
-राविन् Masculine a raven -लोचनः an epithet of the planet Saturn.
In the Gita·16·19
तानहं द्विषतः क्रूरान्संसारेषु नराधमान् ।
[न. त.]
Not cruel.
Derived forms and compounds
-रः Name of a Yādava, a friend and uncle of Kṛiṣṇa. [It was he who induced Balarāma and Kṛiṣṇa to go to Mathurā and kill Kaṁsa. He told the two brothers how their father Ānakadundubhi, the princess Devakī and even his own father Ugrasena had been insulted by the iniquitous demon Kaṁsa, and told them why he had been despatched to them. Kṛiṣṇa consented to go and promised to slay the demon within 3 nights, which he succeeded in doing.]
Very cruel.
Derived forms and compounds
-रः
[krû-rá] adjective wounded; sore; cruel; for midable, terrible; ferocious; rough, hard; neuter sore, wound; roughness, cruelty: -karma krit, adjective *doing cruel deeds; masculine beast of prey; -karman, neuter horrible deed; hard task; adjective doing cruel deeds; -keshtita, (perfect passive participle) adjective acting cruelly; -tâ, feminine; also equal for cruelty.
[a-krûra] adjective not harsh, tender, gentle; -parivâra, adjective having gentle attendants.
[ati-krûra] adjective very terrible.