मुरली शब्दकोश

Dharm and karm (dharma and karma)

Father of a dharma, founder of religion, a special soul that creates the laws or duties that men must follow, that defines what is good and evil.

Religious founder.

A teacher of religion.

Religious, religious-minded; pertaining to a religion or following the tenets of a faith.

Religious leader.
Leader of a dharm.

A rest house for travellers and pilgrims.
An almshouse built as an act of religious merit.
A hospice, a free-of-charge public lodging.

A body or code of laws (esp. the code of Hindū law), jurisprudence.
(Bābā) Religious scripture.

To hold, to keep; to possess; to assume (as powers), to obtain; to fix, to determine (as a time); to suspend (as an undertaking); to hold (as an opinion).
To seize; to detain; to restrain; to check, to counter (a stratagem, &c.).
To place, to put; to deposit; to pawn; to stake (a wager).
To put on, to apply; to wear.
To apply (as the mind, or ear).

Essence for dhārṇā.

The earth, globe.
Earth, soil, land, ground.
A beam.

The Earth.
Earth, soil; land.

A metal.
Constituent elements (of the body).
Root.

The thorn-apple (a powerful narcotic), Datura alba, or D. fastuosa.

Heap, pile, accumulation, bulk, lot.
Plenty, abundant.

Loose, flabby, sluggish.

Slow.
Dull, mild, low, gentle.

Slowly, at slow speed.

To proclaim by beat of drum.

Patience.
Fortitude.
Composure.

A bread of millet.

Deception, deceit, fraud, cheating, guile, subterfuge. A scarecrow.

A cheat, swindler, shyster.
Deceitful, guileful, fraudulent.

A large (elongated) drum.

A small drum played on both the ends.

To transport, to cart, to haul, to carry.
To bear (on head or shoulder, etc.).

A grandson, the son of a daughter.

Fixed, firm, immovable, stable, enduring, constant, lasting, permament; certain, sure, true, right.
The polar star, the north pole (personified in mythology as son of Uttāna-pāda and grandson of the first Manu).

Dust.

To cause to be washed, to get (a thing) washed.