षट्—कर्मन् n. n. the six duties of
Brāhmans (
viz. अध्ययन, ‘studying or repeating the
वेद’,
अध्यापन, ‘teaching the
V° ’,
यजन ‘offering sacrifices’,
याजन, ‘conducting them for others’,
दान, ‘giving’, and
प्रतिग्रह, ‘accepting gifts’),
[ŚāṅkhGṛ.] ;
[Mn.] &c. (the six daily duties
accord. to the later law-books, are,
स्नान, ‘religious bathing’,
संध्याजप, ‘repetition of prayers at the three
संध्याs’,
ब्रह्म-यज्ञ, ‘worship of the Supreme Being by repeating the first words of sacred books’,
तर्पण, ‘daily oblations of water to the gods, sages, and
पितृs’,
होम, ‘oblations of fuel, rice &c. to fire’,
देव-पूजा, ‘worship of the secondary gods either in the domestic sanctuary or in temples’),
[Parāś.] ;
[RTL. 394] ऋत six acts any one of which is allowable to a
Brāhman householder as a means of subsistence (
viz. , ‘gleaning’,
अमृत, ‘unsolicited alms’,
मृत, ‘solicited alms’,
कर्षण, ‘agriculture’,
सत्या-नृत, ‘commerce or trade’,
श्व-वृत्ति, ‘servitude’, the last being condemned),
[Mn. iv, 4, 5, 6, 9] धौती six acts belonging to the practice of
योग (
viz. ,
वस्ती,
नेती,
त्राटक,
नौलिक,
कपाल-भाती, these consist of suppressions of the breath and self-mortifications of various kinds),
[Cat.] शान्ति six acts for inflicting various kinds of injury on enemies (
viz. ,
वश्य,
स्तम्भन,
विद्वेष,
उच्चाटन,
मारण,
q.v. ; these acts consist in repeating certain magical spells and texts taught in the
तन्त्रs),
ib.षट्—कर्मन् m. m. a performer of the above six acts, a
Brāhman who is an adept in the
तन्त्र magical formularies,
[Mn.] ;
[MBh.]