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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​

CodeKRM (GitHub repo KRM)
Full titleKṛdantarūpamālā
AuthorPandit S. Ramasubba Sastri
Year / size1965 · ~1489 pages
TypeGrammatical (roots → kṛt-derived forms), in Sanskrit
AccentsNo
Sourcecsl-orig/v02/krm/
OpenBasic · List · Advanced · Mobile
DataDownloads
csl-dockrm.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 sourceMeaning
<k1>akathe root (search key in SLP1)
“aka kuwilAyAM gatO”the root's definitional phrase — aka, "in crooked motion"
I-BvAdiH-792conjugation class — bhvādi (class I), root no. 792
sakarmakaH-sew-parasmEpadItransitive, seṭ, parasmaipada
GawAdiH mitfurther 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.

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