adharma
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
unrighteous act · unrighteousness
spoken of as
1 expressionunrighteousness“adharma”1 mention
Manusmṛti (Sanskrit)
Unrighteousness practiced in this world does not bear fruit immediately, like a cow;
in the texts
Manusmṛti
Wrongful, non-dharmic action whose consequences are delayed but inevitable, eventually destroying the doer or his descendants.
Unrighteousness practiced in this world does not bear fruit immediately, like a cow;
Through unrighteousness one prospers for a time, then one sees good things, then one conquers one's enemies;
Even when sinking, one should not turn one's mind to unrighteousness through Dharma, seeing the swift reversal of fortune of the unrighteous and sinful.
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
Unrighteousness, personified as gaining ground with each successive age.
Then adharma set down its second foot, and thereupon arose that age reckoned as the Dvāpara.
In that age numbered as the Dvāpara, as the yuga drew toward its end, adharma and untruth both increased, O bull among men.
"For whatever wicked-minded man commits adharma or an unlawful act in the realm of a king, whether in the city — that man quickly goes to hell, as does the king himself, without doubt.