कर्मन्

Definitions

• act, action, performance, business (, , , etc.)
• office, special duty, occupation, obligation; frequently at the end of a compound, the first member of the compound being either the person who performs the action
• or the person or thing for or towards whom the action is performed
• or a specification of the action (, , etc.)
• any religious act or rite (as sacrifice, oblation etc., especially as originating in the hope of future recompense and as opposed to speculative religion or knowledge of spirit) (, , , etc.)
• work, labour, activity (as opposed to rest, प्रशान्ति (प्रशान्ति)) (, etc.)
• physicking, medical attendance ()
• action consisting in motion, as the third among the seven categories of the Nyaya philosophy; of these motions there are five, namely उत्क्षेपण (tr=ut-kṣepaṇa), अवक्षेपण (tr=ava-kṣepaṇa), आकुञ्चन (tr=ā-kuñcana), प्रसारण (प्रसारण), and गमन (गमन) (, )
• calculation ()
• product, result, effect ( xii, 98 )
• organ of sense or action ( xiv)
• (grammar) the object that it stands either in the accusative (in active construction), or in the nominative (in passive construction), or in the genitive (in connection with a noun of action); opposed to कर्तृ (tr=kartṛ́), the subject. ( 1-4, 49 ff.) It is of four kinds, namely a. निर्वर्त्य (tr=nir-vartya), when anything new is produced:
• former act as leading to inevitable results, fate (as the certain consequence of acts in a previous life); karma (, , )
• the tenth lunar mansion ( etc.)