The Sanskrit term Karmakartṛ can be transliterated into English as Karmakartr or Karmakartri, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Vyakarana (Sanskrit grammar)

Source: Shodhganga: Vaiyākaraṇabhūṣaṇasāra: a critical study

Karmakartṛ (कर्मकर्तृ).—An object of the transitive verb which functions as the subject when there is marked facility of action; a reflexive subject; the prompted subject used in the accusative (See Vaiyākaraṇabhūṣaṇasāra, p. 196)

Source: Wikisource: A dictionary of Sanskrit grammar

Karmakartṛ (कर्मकर्तृ).—Object of the transitive verb which functions as the subject when there is a marked facility of action: e.g.ओदन (odana) is karmakartariobject, functioning as subject, in पच्यते ओदनः स्वयमेव (pacyate odanaḥ svayameva). The word कर्मकर्तृ (karmakartṛ) is used also for the कर्मकर्तरि प्रयोग (karmakartari prayoga) where the object, on which the verb-activity is found, is turned into a subject and the verb which is transitive is turned into intransitive as a result.

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Vyakarana (व्याकरण, vyākaraṇa) refers to Sanskrit grammar and represents one of the six additional sciences (vedanga) to be studied along with the Vedas. Vyakarana concerns itself with the rules of Sanskrit grammar and linguistic analysis in order to establish the correct context of words and sentences.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Karmakartṛ (कर्मकर्तृ).—m. (in gram.) an agent who is at the same time the object of the action; e. g. पच्यते ओदनः (pacyate odanaḥ), it is thus defined:क्रियमाणं तु यत्कर्म स्वयमेव प्रसिध्यति । सुकरैः स्वैर्गुणैः कर्तुः कर्मकर्तेति तद्विदुः ॥ न चान्तरेण कर्मकर्तारं सकर्मका अकर्मका भवन्ति (kriyamāṇaṃ tu yatkarma svayameva prasidhyati | sukaraiḥ svairguṇaiḥ kartuḥ karmakarteti tadviduḥ || na cāntareṇa karmakartāraṃ sakarmakā akarmakā bhavanti) Mahābhārata on P.I.3.27

Karmakartṛ is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms karman and kartṛ (कर्तृ).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Karmakartṛ (कर्मकर्तृ).—[masculine] the object-agent ([grammar]).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1) Karmakartṛ (कर्मकर्तृ):—[=karma-kartṛ] [from karma > karman] m. (in [grammar]), ‘an object-agent’ or ‘object-containing agent’ id est. an agent which is at the same time the object of an action (this is the idea expressed by the reflexive passive, as in odanaḥ pacyate, ‘the mashed grain cooks of itself’), [Pāṇini 3-1, 62] (cf. [grammar] [461, iii])

2) [v.s. ...] m. [dual number] (ārau) the work and the person accomplishing it.

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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Partial matches: Karma, Kartri.

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