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krama /krɔːm/
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†[Mod. Khmer ក្រម kram /krɑm/ ``n. (promulgated) law; royal decree; code of law, legal text''; Sanskrit krama `movement forward, progression, procedure, course; way, manner, method; way, custom, rule sanctioned by tradition; progression, regular arrangement, series, succession, rank'; cf. Old Javanese krama,1 Old Mon kruṃ ~ krim ~ kram ~ kraṃ /krøm/ `gist, substance, circumstance(s) ...'2 ].
definitions
1 n. Sequential order, arrangement, series: rank, grade (within a hierarchy).
2 n. Established order, traditional rule, custom, customary law; (conjecturally) decree, edict, ordinance, statute, law.
references
K.393S:41 (A.D. 1055?, C VII:63); K.227:14 (A.D. 1178-1277, BEFEO, XXIX:308).
citations
is kulapakṣa phoṅ stac prakop saṃpat nu krama ○ (K.277:14), `On all members of [their] families [His Majesty] was pleased to confer riches and rank'.
notes
1 `Course, order; state, condition; conduct, behaviour, way of acting; esp. right way, traditional way, custom' (after Zoetmulder, I:891).
2 Shorto, 61.