adharma
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
unrighteous act · unrighteousness
spoken of as
1 expressionunrighteousness“adharma”1 mention
Manusmṛti (Sanskrit)
but an unrighteous act once done is never fruitless for the doer.
in the texts
Manusmṛti
Wrongful, non-dharmic action whose consequences are delayed but inevitable, eventually destroying the doer or his descendants.
but an unrighteous act once done is never fruitless for the doer.
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;
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
Unrighteousness, personified as gaining ground with each successive age.
Then adharma cast one foot upon the earth;
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.