karman | कर्मन् | karman
ka/rman | क/र्मन् | n. (A m., L.), (√ kf | क्फ़् |, Uṇ. iv, 144), act, action, performance, business, RV.; AV.; ŚBr.; MBh. &c.
office, special duty, occupation, obligation (frequently ifc., the first member of the compound being either the person who performs the action [e.g. vaṛik-k˚ | वऋइक्-क्˚ |] or the person or thing for or towards whom the action is performed [e.g. rāja-k˚ | राज-क्˚ |, paṣu-k˚ | पषु-क्˚ |] or a specification of the action [e.g. ṣOrya-k˚ | ष्Oर्य-क्˚ |, prīti-k˚ | प्रीति-क्˚ |]), ŚBr.; Mn.; Bhartṛ. &c.
any religious act or rite (as sacrifice, oblation &c., esp. as originating in the hope of future recompense and as opposed to speculative religion or knowledge of spirit), RV.; AV.; VS.; Ragh. &c.
work, labour, activity (as opposed to rest, praṣānti | प्रषान्ति |), Hit.; RPrāt. &c.
physicking, medical attendance, Car.
action consisting in motion (as the third among the seven categories of the Nyāya philosophy; of these motions there are five, viz. ut-kśepaṛa | उत्-क्शेपऋअ |, ava-kśepaṛa | अव-क्शेपऋअ |, ā-kuẏcana | आ-कुय़्चन |, prasāraṛa | प्रसारऋअ |, and gamana | गमन |, qq.vv.), Bhāṣāp.; Tarkas.
calculation, Sūryas.
product, result, effect, Mn. xii, 98; Suśr.
organ of sense, ŚBr. xiv (or of action See karmendriya | कर्मेन्द्रिय |)
(in Gr.) the object (it stands either in the acc. [in active construction], or in the nom. [in passive construction], or in the gen. [in connection with a noun of action]; opposed to kartf | कर्त्फ़् | the subject), Pāṇ. i, 4, 49 ff. (it is of four kinds, viz. a. nirvartya | निर्वर्त्य |, when anything new is produced, e.g. kawaṃ karoti | कwअं करोति |, ‘he makes a mat’ ; putraṃ prasūte | पुत्रं प्रसूते |, ‘she bears a son’; b. vikārya | विकार्य |, when change is implied either of the substance and form, e.g. kāśWaṃ Basma karoti | काश्Wअं Bअस्म करोति |, ‘he reduces fuel to ashes’; or of the form only, e.g. suvarṛaṃ kuṛqalaṃ karoti | सुवरृअं कुऋक़लं करोति |, ‘he fashions gold into an earring’; c. prāpya | प्राप्य |, when any desired object is attained, e.g. grāmaṃ gacCati | ग्रामं गच्Cअति |, ‘he goes to the village’; candraṃ paṣyati | चन्द्रं पष्यति |, ‘he sees the moon’; d. anīpsita | अनीप्सित |, when an undesired object is abandoned, e.g. pāpaṃ tyajati | पापं त्यजति |, ‘he leaves the wicked’)
former act as leading to inevitable results, fate (as the certain consequence of acts in a previous life), Pañcat.; Hit.; Buddh., (cf. karma-pāka | कर्म-पाक | and -vipāka | -विपाक |)
the tenth lunar mansion, VarBṛS. &c.
office, special duty, occupation, obligation (frequently ifc., the first member of the compound being either the person who performs the action [e.g. vaṛik-k˚ | वऋइक्-क्˚ |] or the person or thing for or towards whom the action is performed [e.g. rāja-k˚ | राज-क्˚ |, paṣu-k˚ | पषु-क्˚ |] or a specification of the action [e.g. ṣOrya-k˚ | ष्Oर्य-क्˚ |, prīti-k˚ | प्रीति-क्˚ |]), ŚBr.; Mn.; Bhartṛ. &c.
any religious act or rite (as sacrifice, oblation &c., esp. as originating in the hope of future recompense and as opposed to speculative religion or knowledge of spirit), RV.; AV.; VS.; Ragh. &c.
work, labour, activity (as opposed to rest, praṣānti | प्रषान्ति |), Hit.; RPrāt. &c.
physicking, medical attendance, Car.
action consisting in motion (as the third among the seven categories of the Nyāya philosophy; of these motions there are five, viz. ut-kśepaṛa | उत्-क्शेपऋअ |, ava-kśepaṛa | अव-क्शेपऋअ |, ā-kuẏcana | आ-कुय़्चन |, prasāraṛa | प्रसारऋअ |, and gamana | गमन |, qq.vv.), Bhāṣāp.; Tarkas.
calculation, Sūryas.
product, result, effect, Mn. xii, 98; Suśr.
organ of sense, ŚBr. xiv (or of action See karmendriya | कर्मेन्द्रिय |)
(in Gr.) the object (it stands either in the acc. [in active construction], or in the nom. [in passive construction], or in the gen. [in connection with a noun of action]; opposed to kartf | कर्त्फ़् | the subject), Pāṇ. i, 4, 49 ff. (it is of four kinds, viz. a. nirvartya | निर्वर्त्य |, when anything new is produced, e.g. kawaṃ karoti | कwअं करोति |, ‘he makes a mat’ ; putraṃ prasūte | पुत्रं प्रसूते |, ‘she bears a son’; b. vikārya | विकार्य |, when change is implied either of the substance and form, e.g. kāśWaṃ Basma karoti | काश्Wअं Bअस्म करोति |, ‘he reduces fuel to ashes’; or of the form only, e.g. suvarṛaṃ kuṛqalaṃ karoti | सुवरृअं कुऋक़लं करोति |, ‘he fashions gold into an earring’; c. prāpya | प्राप्य |, when any desired object is attained, e.g. grāmaṃ gacCati | ग्रामं गच्Cअति |, ‘he goes to the village’; candraṃ paṣyati | चन्द्रं पष्यति |, ‘he sees the moon’; d. anīpsita | अनीप्सित |, when an undesired object is abandoned, e.g. pāpaṃ tyajati | पापं त्यजति |, ‘he leaves the wicked’)
former act as leading to inevitable results, fate (as the certain consequence of acts in a previous life), Pañcat.; Hit.; Buddh., (cf. karma-pāka | कर्म-पाक | and -vipāka | -विपाक |)
the tenth lunar mansion, VarBṛS. &c.