Karana
Karana may refer to:
- Karana, ancient Assyrian-Babylonian city state, modern day Tell al-Rimah
 - Karrana, a village in Bahrain
 - Karana (dance) are the 108 key transitions in classical Indian dance described in Natya Shastra
 - Karan (caste) or Karana, a caste of Odisha state in India
 - Karana (astronomy), a historical genre of Indian texts on astronomy
 - Karana (pancanga), one among the five co-ordinate members (pancanga) in the Indian system of astronomical calculations
 - Karana (moth), a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae
 - Kāraṇa, cause and effect in Advaita Vedanta
 - Karana, colloquial term for Indians in Madagascar
 - Karana, the main character in Scott O'Dell's novel Island of the Blue Dolphins, who is based on the historical Juana Maria
 - Karana the Rainkeeper, the god of rain and storms in the EverQuest MMORPG
 
See also
- Karan (disambiguation)
 - Karna (disambiguation)
 - Karn (disambiguation)
 - Karnan (disambiguation)
 - Karna, a character in the ancient Indian epic Mahābhārata