كڑاكا

कड़ाका kaṛākā(cf. kaṛaknā; and kaṛākaṛ), s.m. A loud cracking sound, a crash (as of anything breaking, or of a falling house, etc.);—sharpness,fierceness, rigour, severity, intensity, extremity (of action, or quality, or heat, or cold, or famine, or epidemic disease, etc.); a rigid fast:—kaṛāke-kā, adj. (f. -kī), Long, rigid (as a fast); sharp, fierce, severe rigorous (as a season, an epidemic, a famine, etc.):—kaṛākāguẓarnā(-par), To fast long or rigidly, to go without food, to starve; to suffer severely, to experience great distress.