கிருத்தியம்

s. Act, actions, perform ances, operation, தொழில். 2. Moral actions good or bad, involving future retribu tions, கன்மக்கிரியை. 3. A course of conduct, நடக்கை. 4. Work, business, employment, லௌகிகவேலை. 5. Religious rules, prescrib ed duties, கடமை. 6. Rites, ceremonies, &c., religious acts or practice, சடங்கு. 7. The operations of the deity--popularity in the characters of creator, preserver and de stroyer; but in the mystic parts of the Agama system, the works of obscuring and enlightening the soul are superadded. Wils. p. 243. KRUTYA. தன்கிருத்தியந்தான்பார்க்கவேண்டும். Each one must perform his appropriate duties, per sonal, social, relative, civil, &c.

கிருத்தியகர்த்தா, s. An operating deity, or a god who performs either of the five great operations in the universe.

கிருத்தியகர்த்தாக்கள், s. (pl.) Agents who carry on operations in the universe; also, those of the விஞ்ஞானகலர் and பிர ளயாகலர் class of souls that have advanc ed so as to be cleansed from மலம், and permitted to be operative.

கிருத்தியப்பிழை, s. Misdeeds, misbe haviour. 2. Failure or transgression in the performance of prescribed rites, ce remonies or other duties.

கிருத்தியமில்லாதவன், s. One who does not practise the rites of the religion. ஒருகிருத்தியமுமில்லாதவன். One unem ployed.

கிருத்தியமுடிக்க, inf. To perform prescribed duties--as religious rites, ceremonies, &c.

கிருத்தியம்பண்ண--கிருத்தியம்நடத்த inf. To perform the works of creation, &c..--as a deity, ஐந்தொழில்செய்ய. The di rect object of this work is fancied to be; 1. To cleanse the soul from its moral defilements. 2. To cause it to experi ence the fruit of former actions. 3. To give it a temporary rest. 4. To produce an equilibrium between the good and evil actions of the soul. 5. To emanci pate it from the பாசம் entanglements. (சிவ. சி.) 2. To perform works, rites, &c., சடங்குசெய்ய. 3. To perform the duties of one's calling, தொழில்செய்ய. 4. To per form the funeral rites for a deceased ancestor, உத்தரகிரியைசெய்ய.

பஞ்சகிருத்தியம், s. The five operations of deity under various names, forms and modifications, viz.: 1st. சிருட்டி or படை த்தல், the work of creating or transform ing matter, evolving it from the primi tive Maya, producing words, furnishing the soul with its appropriate body, ac cording to its actions in a previous birth, &c. In the popular system, this office is ascribed to Brahma. 2d.திதி or காத்தல், the work of preserving, usually ascribed to Vishnu. 3d. சங்காரம் or அழித்தல், the work of destroying, or of reducing the universe to the primitive Maya, through numerous involutions, --as earth into water, water into fire, &c. This office is ascribed to உருத்தி ரன், who by his worshippers is identified with Siva whom they consider supreme. 4th. திரோபவம் or மறைத்தல், the work of obscuration, or the veiling of the soul in moral darkness, and beclouding the understanding, so that the divine being cannot be perceived, while the mind attracted and illuded by visible and sensual objects, is excited to the per formance of new actions, by which absolute liberation from பாசம் entangle ments is prevented, and connection with Maya and its consequent transmi grations--except where the sanchita (சஞ்சிதம்) of former births is exhausted --is indefinitely prolonged. This is as cribed to மயேச்சுரன். 5th. அனுக்கிரகம் or அருளல், this is a work of benevolence as exerted for the benefit of the soul in furnishing it with appropriate bodies by which to expiate the guilt of former actions, though obscuring it with திரோ பவம், while it is thus working itself clear, at length withdrawing the veil and showing it that all visible and sensual objects are illusory and de ceptive; also annihilating the passions and exciting disgust toward the objects of sense, and utter indifference to all mundane affairs, and thus causing entire cessation from physical and moral actions, and maturing it for final emancipation, and union with the Su preme. It is ascribed to சதாசிவம்.

சமுசாரகிருத்தியம், s. Domestic affairs, household business.