कर्मन्

Etymology
According to iv, 144 an inner-Sanskrit derivation from the verbal root. If inherited from, the paradigm must have been leveled from the weak stem, e.g. >.

Noun

 * 1) act, action, performance, business (,, ,  etc.)
 * 2) * RV 1.31.8c
 * तवं नो अग्ने सनये धनानां यशसं कारुं कर्णुहि सतवानः |
 * रध्याम कर्मापसा नवेन देवैर्द्यावाप्र्थिवी परावतं नः ||
 * tvaṃ no agne sanaye dhanānāṃ yaśasaṃ kāruṃ kṛṇuhi stavānaḥ |
 * ṛdhyāma karmāpasā navena devairdyāvāpṛthivī prāvataṃ naḥ ||
 * O Agni, highly lauded, make our singer famous that he may win us store of riches:
 * May we improve the rite with new performance. O Earth and Heaven, with all the Gods, protect us.
 * 1) * RV 1.62.6a
 * तदु परयक्षतममस्य कर्म दस्मस्य चारुतममस्ति दंसः |
 * उपह्वरे यदुपरा अपिन्वन मध्वर्णसो नद्यश्चतस्रः ||
 * tadu prayakṣatamamasya karma dasmasya cārutamamasti daṃsaḥ |
 * upahvare yaduparā apinvan madhvarṇaso nadyaścatasraḥ ||
 * This is the deed most worthy of all honour, the fairest marvel of the Wonder-Worker,
 * That, nigh where heaven bends down, he made four rivers flow full with waves that carry down sweet water.
 * 1) 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
 * — the business or occupation of a merchant, trade
 * 1) or the person or thing for or towards whom the action is performed
 * — the business or duty of a king
 * — the act of offering the victim, sacrifice
 * 1) or a specification of the action (,,  etc.)
 * — a heroic deed
 * — an act of friendship or love, kind action
 * 1) 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.)
 * 2) * RV 6.37.2a
 * प्रो द्रोणे हरयः कर्माग्मन् पुनानास ऋज्यन्तो अभूवन् |
 * इन्द्रो नो अस्य पूर्व्यः पपीयाद् द्युक्षो मदस्य सोम्यस्य राजा ||
 * pro droṇe harayaḥ karmāgman punānāsa ṛjyanto abhūvan |
 * indro no asya pūrvyaḥ papīyād dyukṣo madasya somyasya rājā ||
 * Forth to the vat the brown drops flow for service, and purified proceed directly forward.
 * May Indra drink of this, our guest aforetime, Celestial King of the strong draught of Soma.
 * 1) work, labour, activity (as opposed to rest, ) (,  etc.)
 * 2) physicking, medical attendance
 * 3) action consisting in motion, as the third among the seven categories of the Nyaya philosophy; of these motions there are five, namely, , , , and
 * 4) calculation
 * 5) product, result, effect ( xii, 98 )
 * 6) organ of sense or action ( xiv)
 * — an organ of sense
 * 1)  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, the subject. ( 1-4, 49 ff.) It is of four kinds, namely a. , when anything new is produced:
 * कटं करोति (kaṭaṃ karoti) — he makes a mat
 * पुत्रं प्रसूते (putraṃ prasūte) — she bears a son;, when change is implied either of the substance and form:
 * काष्ठं भस्म करोति (kāṣṭhaṃ bhasma karoti) — he reduces fuel to ashes; or of the form only e.g.
 * सुवर्णं कुण्डलं करोति (suvarṇaṃ kuṇḍalaṃ karoti) — he fashions gold into an ear-ring;, when any desired object is attained:
 * ग्रामं गच्छति (grāmaṃ gacchati) — he goes to the village
 * चन्द्रं पश्यति (candraṃ paśyati) — he sees the moon;, when an undesired object is abandoned:
 * पापं त्यजति (pāpaṃ tyajati) — he leaves the wicked
 * 1) former act as leading to inevitable results, fate (as the certain consequence of acts in a previous life); karma
 * — "ripening of acts", matured result of previous acts or actions done in a former birth
 * — "the ripening of actions" i.e. the good or evil consequences in this life of human acts performed in previous births
 * 1) the tenth lunar mansion ( etc.)

Descendants

 * Dardic: