काम्य
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Sanskrit[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From कम् (√kam); see काम (kā́ma).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
काम्य • (kā́mya) stem
- desirable, beautiful, amiable, lovely, agreeable
- to one's liking, agreeable to one's wish
- optional (opposed to nitya or indispensable observance), performed through the desire of some object or personal advantage (as a religious ceremony ), done from desire of benefit or from interested motives
References[edit]
- Monier Williams (1899), “काम्य”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0273.
- Otto Böhtlingk; Richard Schmidt (1879-1928), “काम्य”, in Walter Slaje, Jürgen Hanneder, Paul Molitor, Jörg Ritter, editors, Nachtragswörterbuch des Sanskrit [Dictionary of Sanskrit with supplements] (in German), Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther-Universität, published 2016