= ಕೌರ್ಮಪುರಾಣ.

of, belonging or particular to a tortoise.

of or relating to the second of ten major incarnations of Viṣṇu.

excessively; abundantly.

specially; mainly; to a marked degree; especially.

= ಕರುಮ.

the doing of something; state of being in motion or of working; an action; a work; a deed.

a ceremonial or formal, solemn act, observance or procedure in accordance with prescribed rule or custom, as in religious use a religious rite.

a deed or action that is supposed to have effect in one's future birth or births.

in Dvaita phil. one of the ten basic elements; a natural or active property (as support of the earth).

(gram.). a noun or other substantive that directly or indirectly receives the action of a verb; the object of an action.

(astrol.) the tenth house in the zodiac diagram; the tenth lunar mansion.

a symbol for the number six, 6.

a performer, doer or worker.

a person whose actions result in either good or bad consequences.

a wicked person; an evil doer; a sinner.

involving or calling for much hard work; laborious.

industrious; hard-working.

any of many slender, soft-bodied animals, some segmented, that live by burrowing underground, in water or as parasites, including the annelids, nemerteans, nematodes, platyhelminths, acanthocephalans, and gordian worms; a worm.

any of small, chiefly land arachnids of Araneae order, having a body composed of a cephalothorax bearing the legs and an abdomen bearing two or more pairs of spinnerets that spin the silk threads from which are made nests, cocoons for the eggs or webs for trapping insects; a spider.

any of certain moth caterpillars of the Bombycidae family, that produce cocoons of silk fibre; a silk worm.

a resinous substance secreted by various scale insects, esp. a species (Laccifer lacca) of India, that live on certain fig, soapberry, and acacia trees; lac.

an abject, wretched or contemptible person.

a dutiful worker who works without expecting the fruit for his work.

the state or quality of being young, junior or low in rank, status, etc.

the quality of being contemptible, mean or ignoble; meanness; baseness.