cl. 1. P. Ā. krā́mati ([Pāṇ. vii, 3, 76]; ep. also kramati), kramate ([Pāṇ. i, 3, 43], ep. also krāmate; according to [Pāṇ. iii, 1, 70] also cl. 4. P. krāmyati [kramyati, [Vop.]]; aor. akramīt, [RV.] &c.; Ā. krámiṣṭa, kraṃsate [[RV. i, 121, 1]], 3. pl. cákramanta [[RV. ii, 19, 2]]; perf. cakrāma, or cakrame; p. cakramāṇá, [RV. x, 123, 3]; fut. kramiṣyati or kraṃsyate ind.p. krāntvā, krantvā, or kramitvā, [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 18] and [vii, 2, 36]), to step, walk, go, go towards, approach (with áccha, ádhi acc. or loc.), [RV.]; [AV.]; [TS.] &c.; to approach in order to ask for assistance (with loc.), [AV. iv, 11, 12] and [xix, 17, 1]; to go across, go over, [MBh.]; [R.] &c.; Ved. to climb (as on a tree's branch), [Pāṇ. vii, 1, 40], [Kāś.]; to cover (in copulation), [AV. iv, 4, 7]; to stretch over, project over, tower above, (ind.p. krāntvā), [Ragh. i, 14]; to take possession of [Pañcat.]; Ā. to undertake, strive after, make effort for (dat.), [Pāṇ. i, 3, 38]; [iii, 1, 14], [Kāś.]; (loc.), [Bhaṭṭ. xv, 20]; Ā. ([Pāṇ. i, 3, 38]) to proceed well, advance, make progress, gain a footing, succeed, have effect, [MBh.]; [R.]; [Bhaṭṭ.]; to be appliable or practicable, [Sarvad.]; P. to be liable to the peculiar arrangement of a Vedic text called Krama (i.e. to be doubled, as a letter or word), [RPrāt. vi, 4]; Ā. to read according to the Krama arrangement of a Vedic text, [RPrāt.]; [Lāṭy.] (a-krānta) : Caus. P. kramayati, to cause to step, [ŚBr. v]; [xi]; kramayati or krām°, to make liable to the peculiar arrangement called Krama (i.e. to double a letter or word), [RPrāt.] &c.: Intens. caṅkramyate ([Pāṇ. iii, 1, 23], [Kāś.]; p. caṅ-kramyámāṇa [[TS. vii, 1, 19, 3]; [MBh.]] or °kramam°, [MBh. i, 7919] & [BhP. v, 6, 7]) or caṅkramīti ([MBh. xiv, 137] and [141]; impf. 2. pl. caṅkramata, [RV. viii, 55, 4]; fut. p. caṅkramiṣyát, [TS. vii, 1, 19, 3]; ind.p. °mitvā, [Vop. v, 3]; cf. °mitá), to step to and fro, walk or wander about.
a position taken (by an animal &c.) before making a spring or attacking, [Pañcat.]; [Bhaṭṭ. ii, 9]
the foot, [MBh. iii, 14316]
uninterrupted or regular progress, order, series, regular arrangement, succession (e.g. varṇa-krameṇa, ‘in the order of the castes’, [Mn. viii, 24] and [ix, 85]), [AV. viii, 9, 10]; [RPrāt. xv, 5]; [KātyŚr.]; [R.] &c.
hereditary descent, [Yājñ. ii, 119]
method, manner (e.g. yena krameṇa, in which manner, [R. ii, 26, 20]; tad-anusaraṇa-krameṇa, so as to go on following him, [Hit.])
diet, [Car. vi, 13]
custom, rule sanctioned by tradition, [MārkP. xxiii, 112]
(kramaṃ √ 1. kṛ, ‘to follow that rule’), [Nyāyam.]
occasion, cause (with gen. or ifc.), [Kathās. xviii, 380]; [Hit.]
‘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 pada- [[TPrāt. ii, 12]], in relation to conjunct consonants varṇa- [ib.]), [Prāt.]
the words or letters themselves when combined or arranged in the said manner, [ib.]
(in dram.) attainment of the object desired (or accord. to others ‘noticing of any one's affection’), [Daśar. i, 36 f.]; [Sāh.]; [Pratāpar.]
(in rhet.) a kind of simile (in which the comparisons exhibited correspond to each other in regular succession), [Vām. iv, 3, 17]
krama—pāṭha m. the Krama reading (i.e. a peculiar ‘step by step’ arrangement of a Vedic text made to secure it from all possible error by, as it were, combining the Saṃhitā-pāṭha and the Padapāṭha i.e. by giving the words both as connected and unconnected with following and preceding words; see also krama above), [VPrāt. iv, 180], Sch.; [Pāṇ. viii, 4, 28], [Kaiy.]