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Pali Dictionary

by U Kyaw Tun, et. al.

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kam

kamma

{kam~ma.}

UMK-USL p26
1. n. (S) work, affair, business
2. n. (A) volitional activity leading to beneficial or detrimental effect; karma
3. volitional mental concomitants arising in conjunction with:
   12 kinds of immoral consciousness resulting in kammaja-rūpa
   8 kinds of great or higher moral consciousness and
   5 kinds of moral consciousness related to the fine material world to produce karma created corporeality

PTS p190-194
kamma
(nt.) the doing, deed, work
1. Crude meaning
1.1 (lit.) acting in a special sense i.e. office, occupation, doing, action, profession
1.2 acting in general, action, deed, doing (nearly always -°)
   cīvara kamma -- mending the cloak -- PTS p190
   nava kamma -- making new, renovating, patching -- PTS p190
2. Applied meaning doing, acting with ref. to deed and doer. It is impossible to draw a clear line between the source of the act (i.e. the acting subject, the actor) and the act (either the object or the phenomenon acted, produced, i.e. the deed as objective phenomenon, or the process of acting, i.e. the deed as subjective phenomenon).

karma ( kār'mə) n. 1. Hinduism Buddhism The total effect of a person's actions and conduct during the successive phases of the person's existence, regarded as determining the person's destiny. 2. Fate; destiny. 3. Informal A distinctive aura, atmosphere, or feeling: There's bad karma around the house today. [Sanskrit deed, karma; See k w er- in Indo-European Roots.] karmic adj. -- AHTD

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