kárman n. (ā m., [L.]), (√ kṛ, [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. vaṇik-k°] or the person or thing for or towards whom the action is performed [e.g. rāja-k°, paśu-k°] or a specification of the action [e.g. śaurya-k°, prīti-k°]), [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.
action consisting in motion (as the third among the seven categories of the Nyāya philosophy; of these motions there are five, viz. ut-kṣepaṇa, ava-kṣepaṇa, ā-kuñcana, prasāraṇa, and gamana, qq.vv.), [Bhāṣāp.]; [Tarkas.]
calculation, [Sūryas.]
product, result, effect, [Mn. xii, 98]; [Suśr.]
organ of sense, [ŚBr. xiv] (or of action See karmendriya)
(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 kartṛ the subject), [Pāṇ. i, 4, 49 ff.] (it is of four kinds, viz. a. nirvartya, when anything new is produced, e.g. kaṭaṃ karoti, ‘he makes a mat’ ; putraṃ prasūte, ‘she bears a son’; b. vikārya, when change is implied either of the substance and form, e.g. kāṣṭhaṃ bhasma karoti, ‘he reduces fuel to ashes’; or of the form only, e.g. suvarṇaṃ kuṇḍalaṃ karoti, ‘he fashions gold into an ear-ring’; c. prāpya, when any desired object is attained, e.g. grāmaṃ gacchati, ‘he goes to the village’; candraṃ paśyati, ‘he sees the moon’; d. anīpsita, when an undesired object is abandoned, e.g. pāpaṃ tyajati, ‘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 and -vipāka)