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कद्

कहा?

where?

Monier–Williams

कद् — {kad} cl. 1. Ā. {kadate}, {cakāda} (R. ed. Gorresio vi, 65, 23##but ed. Bomb. vi, 86, 24 reads {cakāra}), to be confused, suffer mentally##to grieve##to confound##to kill or hurt##to call##to cry or shed tears Dhātup. xix, 10

कद् — {kád} ind. (originally the neuter form of the interrogative pronoun {ka}), a particle of interrogation (= Lat. {nonne}, {num}) RV##anything wrong or bad BhP. vii, 5, 28 (cf. below)##= {sukha} Nigh##{kad} is used, like {kim}, with the particles {cana} and {cid}, 'sometimes, now and then'##{kac-cana} with the negation {na}, 'in no way or manner' RV##{kac-cid} is also used, like the simple {kad}, as a particle of interrogation (e.g. {kaccid dṛṣṭā tvayā rājan damayantī}, was Damayantī seen by thee, O king?) MBh., or {kaccid} may be translated by 'I hope that'##at the beginning of a compound it may mark the uselessness, badness or defectiveness of anything, as in the following examples