dharma (mn)
Meanings
- a bow
- a particular ceremony
- a Soma-drinker
- an Upanishad
- associating with the virtuous
- character
- customary observance or prescribed conduct
- devotion
- duty
- justice (often as a synonym of punishment)
- law
- Law or Justice personified (as Indra)
- mark
- morality
- name of a king of Kaśmīra
- name of a lexicographer
- name of a son of Anu and father of Ghṛta
- name of a son of Citraka
- name of a son of Dīrghatapas
- name of a son of Gāndhāra and father of Dhṛta
- name of a son of Haihaya and father of Netra
- name of a son of Pṛthuśravas and of Uśanas
- name of a son of Suvrata
- name of the 15th Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī
- nature
- ordinance
- peculiar condition or essential quality
- peculiarity
- practice
- property
- religion
- religious abstraction
- religious merit
- right
- sacrifice
- statute
- steadfast decree
- that which is established or firm
- the ethical precepts of Buddhism (or the principal dharma called sūsra)
- the law of Northern Buddhism (in 9 canonical scriptures)
- the law or doctrine of Buddhism
- the ninth mansion
- usage
- virtue
Sememes
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