कथक [ kathaka ] [ kathaka ] m. f. n. relating , reciting , Lit. Śāntiś.

  [ kathaka ] m. a narrator , relater , one who recites a story (or who publicly reads and expounds the Purāṇas ) , one who speaks or tells , a professional story-teller Lit. MBh. Lit. Kathās.

  the speaker of a prologue or monologue , chief actor Lit. L.

  N. of a man

  of a being in the retinue of Skanda.