duskarma

plural duskarmas

1. EasterncountableuncountablelifestyleA misdeed, sinful action, vice, or wrong.

   Knowingly or unknowingly people do a lot of duṣkarma (wrong deeds).

   2000, Muralidharan, Śrī Guru-Gītā, page 157

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   ... for an offence against Dharma, (i.e. law or morality) goes far to shed the duṣkarma that results from his offence.

   1946, Chittenjoor Kunhan Raja (contributor), Dr. C. Kunhan Raja Presentation Volume - A Volume of Indological Studies, page 228

   Forcing oneself into a varṇa other than that in which he is born, will make the offender guilty of duṣkarma or sin , whose effect will be to intensify the effects of prāktanakarma (past-birth action) to which his present caste itself is traceable.

   1952, Kumbakonam Viraraghava Rangaswami Aiyangar, Some Aspects of the Hindu View of Life According to Dharmaśāṡtra, page 99

   It is a definite consequence of the duṣkarma on the part of the individual.

   1968, University of Madras, Centre of Advanced Study in Philosophy, Indian Philosophical Annual - Volume 2, page 191

   At any one time we all have the preponderance of one guna over the other two and due to this we do either, (a) satkarma-good acts, or (b) duṣkarma-bad acts.

   1998, Pathikonda Viswambara Nath, Tat Tvam Asi, The Universal Massage in the Bhagavadgītā - Volume 1, page 138

   The tone of this verse and verses six and seven seem to refer to any karma whatever, whether it is śrauta, smārta or sādhāraṇa kind and even to duṣkarma that all humans do.

   2003, Indian Council of Philosophical Research, R. Balasubramanian, Paramparā - Essays in Honour of R. Balasubramanian, page 199