kathaka mfn. relating, reciting, Śāntiś
• m. a narrator, relater, one who recites a story (or who publicly reads and expounds the Purāṇas &c.), one who speaks or tells, a professional story-teller MBh. Kathās. &c
• the speaker of a prologue or monologue, chief actor L
• N. of a man
• of a being in the retinue of Skanda

Sanskrit-English Dictionary, by M. Monier William