Karmadharaya

Karmadharaya

A Karmadhāraya is a type of compound in Sanskrit grammar, a subtype of the tatpurusha type ("nominative-tatpurushas").

The relation of the first member to the last is appositional, attributive or adverbial; this entails that if the members are dissolved, they will stand in the same case (meaning that there is no hierarchical syntactic relation between the members).

Examples:-
*"uluka-yatu" = "owl-demon" = "demon in the shape of an owl".
*"mahā-rāja" = "great-king" = "a king who is great".

"Karmadhāraya" literally means "action-carrying".

ee also

*Sanskrit compounds
*Bahuvrihi
*Tatpurusha
*Dvigu


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