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.]