चरति

चरति (root car, first conjugation)

1. Devanagari script form of carati (“to walk”)

• Present active participle: चरन्त् (carant), which see for forms and usage
• Present middle participle: चरमान (caramāna), which see for forms and usage

चरति (carati)

1. Devanagari script form of carati, which is masculine and neuter locative singular of चरन्त् (carant), present participle of the verb above

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *čárHati, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁-e-ti, from *kʷelh₁- (“to move; to turn (around)”). Cognate with Ancient Greek πέλω (pélō), Latin colō. See also चलति (cálati).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕɐ́.ɾɐ.ti/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕɐ.ɾɐ.t̪i/

चरति • (cárati) third-singular indicative (class 1, type P, root चर्)

1. to move oneself, go, walk, move, stir, roam about, wander (said of men, animals, water, ships, stars, etc.)
2. to spread, be diffused (as fire)
3. to move or travel through, pervade, go along, follow
   • c. 1500 BCE – 1000 BCE, Ṛgveda 10.108.2:

     इन्द्र॑स्य दू॒तीरि॑षि॒ता च॑रामि म॒ह इ॒च्छन्ती॑ पणयो नि॒धीन्वः॑।
     अ॒ति॒ष्कदो॑ भि॒यसा॒ तन्न॑ आव॒त्तथा॑ र॒साया॑ अतरं॒ पयां॑सि॥

     índrasya dūtī́riṣitā́ carāmi mahá icchántī paṇayo nidhī́nvaḥ.
     atiṣkádo bhiyásā tánna āvattáthā rasā́yā ataraṃ páyāṃsi.

     I come appointed messenger of Indra, seeking your ample stores of wealth, O Paṇis.
     This hath preserved me from the fear of crossing: thus have I made my way o' er Rasa's waters.

4. to behave, conduct oneself, act, live, treat (with instrumental or locative)
5. to be engaged in, occupied or busy with
6. to have intercourse with, have to do with (+instrumental)
7. to continue performing or being
8. (astronomy) to be in any asterism or conjunction
9. to undertake, set about, under go, observe, practise, do or act in general, effect, make
10. to consume, eat (with accusative), graze
11. to make or render (with double accusative)
12. (causative) to cause to move or walk about
13. (causative) to pasture
14. (causative) to send, direct, turn, move
15. (causative) to cause any one (in accusative) to walk through (+accusative)
16. (causative) to drive away from (+ ablative)
17. (causative) to cause any one (in accusative) to practise or perform (with accusative)
18. (causative) to cause (any animal, +accusative) to eat
19. (causative) to cause to copulate
20. (causative) to ascertain (as through a spy instr.)
21. (causative) to doubt
22. (desiderative) to try to go
23. (desiderative) to wish to act or conduct oneself
24. (desiderative) to try to have intercourse with
25. (intensive) to move quickly or repeatedly, walk about, roam about (in locative)
26. (intensive) to act wantonly or coquettishly

Forms of Sanskrit verbs are numerous and complicated. The following conjugation shows only a subset of all forms and should be treated as a guide.

• आचरति (ācarati)

• Pali: carati

• Monier Williams (1899) “चरति”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 389.