Sanskrit dictionary (beta)

[क्रम-भावकरणादौ घञ्]

1. A step, pace; त्रिविक्रमः; सागरः प्लवगेन्द्रेण क्रमेणैकेन लङ्घितः Mb.; Śi.12.18.
2. A foot; (अपनेष्यति) असुरेभ्यः श्रियं दीप्तां विष्णुस्त्रिभिरिव क्रमैः Rām. 5.21.28.
3. Going, proceeding, course; क्रमात् or क्रमेण in course of, gradually; कालक्रमेण gradually, in course of time; कालक्रमेण जगतः परिवर्तमाना Svapna., भाग्यक्रमः course or turn of fate; R.3.7,3,32.
4. Performance, commencement; अविचार्य क्रमं न करिष्यति । इत्थमत्र विततक्रमे क्रतौ Śi.14.53.
5. (a) Regular course, order, series, succession; निमित्तनैमित्तक- योरयं क्रमः &Sacute.7.3; Ms.7.24,.9.85,2.173,3.69. (b) Traditional order; Ubbayapada (Parasmaipada and Atmanepada)6. (c) Order of propriety; लोका- न्तरगतेनापि नोज्झितो विनयक्रमः Nāg.5.11. आत्मीयः पर इत्ययं खलु कुतः सत्यं कृपाया क्रमः । Tbe same. 5.2; Ku.5.32; प्रियवचन- निवेदनत्वरया क्रमविशेषो नावेक्षितः Pratijñā.
6. Method, manner; वर्तस्व च सतां क्रमे Rām.2.25.2; नेत्रक्रमेणोपरुरोध सूर्यम् R.7.39.
7. Grasp, hold; क्रमगता पशोः कन्यका Māl.3.13.
8. A position of attack (assumed by an animal before making a spring); न मया क्रमः सज्जीकृत आसीत् Pt.4.
9. Preparation, readiness; Bk.2.9.
10. An undertaking, enterprize.
11. An act or deed, manner of proceeding; कोप्येष कान्तः क्रमः Amaru.48,33.
12. Particular manner of reciting Vedic texts, leaving at each time one word and taking up another; वेदैः साङ्गपदक्रमोपनिषदैर्गायन्ति यं सामगाः Bhāg.12.13.1. चर्चागुणान् क्रमगुणांश्चापेक्ष्य भवति Mbh. on ParasmaipadaV.1.119.
13. Power, strength; स ईश्वरः काल उरुक्रमोऽसौ Bhāg.7.8.9.
14. Name of Viṣṇu.

1. masculine gender a step AV. x, 5, 25 ff. TS. iii MBh. etc.
2. masculine gender going, proceeding, course (confer, compare काल-क्that the rest of a word is to be supplied) Mr2icch. Pan5cat. Ma1lati1m. Hit.
3. masculine gender the way R. ii, 25, 2
4. masculine gender a position taken (by an animal etc.) before making a spring or attacking Pan5cat. Bhat2t2. ii, 9
5. masculine gender the foot MBh. iii, 14316
6. masculine gender uninterrupted or regular progress, order, series, regular arrangement, succession (exempli gratia, 'for example' वर्ण-क्रमेण, "in the order of the castes" Mn. viii, 24 and ix, 85) AV. viii, 9, 10 RPra1t. xv, 5 Ka1tyS3r. R. etc.
7. masculine gender hereditary descent Ya1jn5. ii, 119
8. masculine gender method, manner (exempli gratia, 'for example' येन क्रमेण, in which manner R. ii, 26, 20; तद्-अनुसरण-क्रमेण, so as to go on following him Hit.)
9. masculine gender diet Car. vi, 13
10. masculine gender custom, rule sanctioned by tradition Ma1rkP. xxiii, 112
11. masculine gender (क्रमं √1. कृ, "to follow that rule") Nya1yam.
12. masculine gender occasion, cause (with genitive case or in fine compositi or 'at the end of a compound') Katha1s. xviii, 380 Hit.
13. masculine gender "progressing step by step", a peculiar manner or method of reading and writing Vedic texts (so called because the reading proceeds from the 1st member, either word or letter, to the 2nd, then the 2nd is repeated and connected with the 3rd, the 3rd repeated and connected with the 4th, and so on; this manner of reading in relation to words is called पद- [TPra1t. ii, 12], in relation to conjunct consonants वर्ण- [ibidem]) Pra1t.
14. masculine gender the words or letters themselves when combined or arranged in the said manner ibidem
15. masculine gender (in dramatic language) attainment of the object desired (or according to to according to others "noticing of any one's affection") Das3ar. i, 36 feminine Sa1h. Prata1par.
16. masculine gender (in rhetoric) a kind of simile (in which the comparisons exhibited correspond to each other in regular succession) Va1m. iv, 3, 17
17. masculine gender power, strength Lexicographers
18. masculine gender according to order or rank or series Mn. Ragh. etc.
19. (in compound)