ṣaṭ—karman n. the six duties of Brāhmans (viz. adhyayana, ‘studying or repeating the Veda’, adhyāpana, ‘teaching the V°’, yajana ‘offering sacrifices’, yājana, ‘conducting them for others’, dāna, ‘giving’, and pratigraha, ‘accepting gifts’), [ŚāṅkhGṛ.]; [Mn.] &c. (the six daily duties accord. to the later law-books, are, snāna, ‘religious bathing’, saṃdhyājapa, ‘repetition of prayers at the three Saṃdhyās’, brahma-yajña, ‘worship of the Supreme Being by repeating the first words of sacred books’, tarpaṇa, ‘daily oblations of water to the gods, sages, and Pitṛs’, homa, ‘oblations of fuel, rice &c. to fire’, deva-pūjā, ‘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. ṛta, ‘gleaning’, amṛta, ‘unsolicited alms’, mṛta, ‘solicited alms’, karṣaṇa, ‘agriculture’, satyānṛta, ‘commerce or trade’, śva-vṛtti, ‘servitude’, the last being condemned), [Mn. iv, 4], [5], [6], [9]
six acts belonging to the practice of Yoga (viz. dhautī, vastī, netī, trāṭaka, naulika, kapāla-bhātī, 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. śānti, vaśya, stambhana, vidveṣa, uccāṭana, māraṇa, qq.vv.; these acts consist in repeating certain magical spells and texts taught in the Tantras), [ib.]
ṣaṭ—karman m. a performer of the above six acts, a Brāhman who is an adept in the Tantra magical formularies, [Mn.]; [MBh.]