Ramasubba Sastri, Kṛdantarūpamālā (KRM)
KRM is Pandit S. Ramasubba Sastri's Kṛdantarūpamālā ("a garland of kṛt-ending forms") —
not a meaning dictionary but a grammatical reference: it lists Sanskrit verbal roots
with their grammatical properties and the nominal forms derived from them by kṛt affixes.
The metalanguage is Sanskrit.
At a glance
| Code | KRM (GitHub repo KRM) |
| Full title | Kṛdantarūpamālā |
| Author | Pandit S. Ramasubba Sastri |
| Year / size | 1965 · ~1489 pages |
| Type | Grammatical (roots → kṛt-derived forms), in Sanskrit |
| Accents | No |
| Source | csl-orig/v02/krm/ |
| Open | Basic · List · Advanced · Mobile |
| Data | Downloads |
| csl-doc | krm.rst |
When to use it
Reach for KRM for the grammatical profile of a root — its meaning gloss, conjugation
class (gaṇa), transitivity, seṭ/aniṭ status, pada, and the kṛt-derived forms. It is a
Pāṇinian reference, not a translation dictionary; for meanings in English use
Monier-Williams (MW).
Reading an entry
Each entry is a root (<k1>) with its definitional sūtra and grammatical tags. The first
entry — the root aka (csl-orig/v02/krm/krm.txt):
<L>1<pc>0003<k1>aka<k2>aka
(1) {@<s>“aka kuwilAyAM gatO”</s>@}¦ (<s>I-BvAdiH</s>-792 <s>sakarmakaH-sew-parasmEpadI) GawAdiH mit .</s>
| In the source | Meaning |
|---|---|
<k1>aka | the root (search key in SLP1) |
“aka kuwilAyAM gatO” | the root's definitional phrase — aka, "in crooked motion" |
I-BvAdiH-792 | conjugation class — bhvādi (class I), root no. 792 |
sakarmakaH-sew-parasmEpadI | transitive, seṭ, parasmaipada |
GawAdiH mit | further grammatical class tags (ghaṭādi, mit) |
See Data Formats for the markup reference.
What makes it distinctive
- A grammar, not a glossary. Roots with their Pāṇinian properties and kṛt-derived forms.
- Large and systematic — a reference for verbal morphology.
Headword key conventions
<k1> = <k2> = SLP1 verbal root (the search key). The entry body is in Sanskrit (not English) — this is a Pāṇinian grammatical reference giving kṛt-derived forms.
| Convention | Marker / form | Example | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Search key | SLP1 verbal root | aka | k1 = k2 |
| Definition phrase | "{#root definition#}" | "aka kuwilAyAM gatO" | The dhātupāṭha-style definition of the root |
| Class label | Gaṇa-BvAdiH-N | I-BvAdiH-792 = class I, gaṇa 792 | Conjugation class identifier |
| Properties | Transitivity, seṭ/aniṭ, pada | sakarmakaH-sew-parasmEpadI | Key grammatical properties inline |
Abbreviations
No machine-readable abbreviation list yet; the legend lives in the scanned front matter. View front matter →
See also
- Monier-Williams (MW) — for the meanings of these roots and forms
- The full catalog of all 43 dictionaries
- csl-doc krm.rst