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, that'll stand in the same case (meaning that there's 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 g… (More on Karmadharaya)