krátu m. (√ 1. kṛ, or 2. kṛ), plan, design, intention, resolution, determination, purpose, [RV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.]; [BṛĀrUp.]
desire, will (instr. krátvā, willingly, readily, [RV.]; ékena krátunā, through the mere will, [RV. ii, 13, 11])
power, ability, [RV.]
deliberation, consultation, [RV.]; [VS.]
intelligence, understanding (e.g. bhadrá krátu, right judgement, good understanding; also in conjunction or in comp. or ifc. with dákṣa See krátu-dákṣau and dakṣakratū́), [RV.]; [VS.]; [TS.]; [ŚBr.]
inspiration, enlightenment, [RV.]
a sacrificial rite or ceremony, sacrifice (as the Aśva-medha sacrifice), offering, worship (also personified, [R. vii, 90, 9]), [AitBr.]; [ŚBr. xi]; [ĀśvŚr.] &c.
Kratu as intelligence personified (as a son of Brahmā and one of the Prajā-patis or the seven or ten principal Ṛṣis, [Mn. i, 35]; [MBh. i, 2518] & [2568]; [Hariv.] &c.; [N. of a star] [VarBṛS.]; married to Kriyā and father of 60,000 Vālikhilyas, [BhP. iv, 1, 39]; husband of Haya-śirā, [vi, 6, 33])
N. of one of the Viśve-devās, [VP.]
of a son of Kṛṣṇa, [BhP. x, 61, 12]
of a son of Ūru and Āgneyī, [Hariv. 73]
of the author of a Dharma-śāstra, [Parāś.]; [Śūdradh.]
krátu m. or f. (?), N. of a river in Plakṣa-dvīpa (v.l. kramu), [VP.] [cf. a-, ádbhuta-, abhí-, &c.; cf. also κράτος.]
kratu—rāja m. the chief of sacrifices (i.e. the Rāja-sūya sacrifice performed by a monarch who has made all the princes of the world tributary to himself), [BhP. x, 72, 3.]