andhī kṛ

 “andhī kṛ” most naturally means “to make blind” or “to cause blindness,” formed by combining the adjective andhī (“blind”) with the verb root kṛ (“to make, to do”).

Devanagari rendering is “अँधी कृ”

What each part means

• andhī — The search result shows that andhī appears in Sanskrit dictionaries

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  , and it corresponds to the adjective “blind” (from the root andha, “blind”).
• kṛ (कृ) — A very common Sanskrit root meaning “to do, make, cause, prepare, effect” with a wide range of senses

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  . It is frequently used to form causative expressions such as kṛṣṇī-kṛ “to blacken,” śvetī-kṛ “to whiten,” etc.
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How the construction works

The root kṛ is often used with nouns or adjectives to mean “to make X,” “to cause to become X,” or “to bring into the state of X.”
This pattern is explicitly described in the long entry for kṛ, which notes that the root is used “with nouns, adjectives, and indeclinables to form verbs… in the sense of ‘making a person or thing to be what it previously is not’”

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Examples from the same pattern include:

• kṛṣṇī-kṛ — “to make black”
• śvetī-kṛ — “to make white”
• ghanī-kṛ — “to solidify”

Following this productive pattern, andhī kṛ would mean:

• “to make blind,” “to blind,” “to cause to become blind.”

Why this is the most likely meaning

• andhī is an adjective meaning “blind,” and adjectives commonly combine with kṛ to form causative verbs.
• The dictionaries in the results do not list a special idiom andhī kṛ, but the morphology is regular and matches many attested formations.
• The Wisdom Library entry for andhikṛ

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  suggests related forms exist, reinforcing that andhī + kṛ is a plausible derivation.
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Summary

“andhī kṛ” = “to make blind; to cause blindness; to render someone blind.”