śawkarman | शwकर्मन् | zawkarman
śaw—karman | शw—कर्मन् | n. the six duties of Brāhmans (viz. aḍyayana | अड्ययन |, ‘studying or repeating the Veda’, aḍyāpana | अड्यापन |, ‘teaching the V˚’, yajana | यजन | ‘offering sacrifices’, yājana | याजन |, ‘conducting them for others’, dāna | दान |, ‘giving’, and pratigraha | प्रतिग्रह |, ‘accepting gifts’), ŚāṅkhGṛ.; Mn. &c. (the six daily duties accord. to the later law-books, are, snāna | स्नान |, ‘religious bathing’, saṃḍyājapa | संड्याजप |, ‘repetition of prayers at the three Saṃdhyās’, brahma-yajẏa | ब्रह्म-यज्य़ |, ‘worship of the Supreme Being by repeating the first words of sacred books’, tarpaṛa | तर्पऋअ |, ‘daily oblations of water to the gods, sages, and Pitṛs’, homa | होम |, ‘oblations of fuel, rice &c. to fire’, deva-pūjā | देव-पूजा |, ‘worship of the secondary gods either in the domestic sanctuary or in temples’), Parāś.; RTL. 394
six acts any one of which is allowable to a Brāhman householder as a means of subsistence (viz. fta | फ़्त |, ‘gleaning’, amfta | अम्फ़्त |, ‘unsolicited alms’, mfta | म्फ़्त |, ‘solicited alms’, karśaṛa | कर्शऋअ |, ‘agriculture’, satyānfta | सत्यान्फ़्त |, ‘commerce or trade’, ṣva-vftti | ष्व-व्फ़्त्ति |, ‘servitude’, the last being condemned), Mn. iv, 4, 5, 6, 9
six acts belonging to the practice of Yoga (viz. ḍOtī | ड्Oती |, vastī | वस्ती |, netī | नेती |, trāwaka | त्राwअक |, nOlika | न्Oलिक |, kapāla-Bātī | कपाल-Bआती |, these consist of suppressions of the breath and self-mortifications of various kinds), Cat.
six acts for inflicting various kinds of injury on enemies (viz. ṣānti | षान्ति |, vaṣya | वष्य |, stamBana | स्तम्Bअन |, vidveśa | विद्वेश |, uccāwana | उच्चाwअन |, māraṛa | मारऋअ |, qq.vv.; these acts consist in repeating certain magical spells and texts taught in the Tantras), ib.
śaw—karman | शw—कर्मन् | m. a performer of the above six acts, a Brāhman who is an adept in the Tantra magical formularies, Mn.; MBh.
six acts any one of which is allowable to a Brāhman householder as a means of subsistence (viz. fta | फ़्त |, ‘gleaning’, amfta | अम्फ़्त |, ‘unsolicited alms’, mfta | म्फ़्त |, ‘solicited alms’, karśaṛa | कर्शऋअ |, ‘agriculture’, satyānfta | सत्यान्फ़्त |, ‘commerce or trade’, ṣva-vftti | ष्व-व्फ़्त्ति |, ‘servitude’, the last being condemned), Mn. iv, 4, 5, 6, 9
six acts belonging to the practice of Yoga (viz. ḍOtī | ड्Oती |, vastī | वस्ती |, netī | नेती |, trāwaka | त्राwअक |, nOlika | न्Oलिक |, kapāla-Bātī | कपाल-Bआती |, these consist of suppressions of the breath and self-mortifications of various kinds), Cat.
six acts for inflicting various kinds of injury on enemies (viz. ṣānti | षान्ति |, vaṣya | वष्य |, stamBana | स्तम्Bअन |, vidveśa | विद्वेश |, uccāwana | उच्चाwअन |, māraṛa | मारऋअ |, qq.vv.; these acts consist in repeating certain magical spells and texts taught in the Tantras), ib.
śaw—karman | शw—कर्मन् | m. a performer of the above six acts, a Brāhman who is an adept in the Tantra magical formularies, Mn.; MBh.