From Sanskrit 'karma' (action, deed), from PIE *kwer- (to make) — a distant cognate of Latin 'creare' (to create).
In Hinduism and Buddhism, the sum of a person's actions in this and previous states of existence, viewed as determining their future fate; informally, the cosmic principle that good deeds are rewarded and bad deeds punished.
From Sanskrit 'karma' (कर्म, action, deed, work, fate), from the root 'kṛ' (कृ, to do, to make, to perform), from PIE *kʷer- (to make, to do). Karma literally means 'action' or 'deed' — the concept is that every action has consequences that follow the actor across lifetimes. The word is cognate with Latin 'creāre' (to create) and 'Ceres' (goddess of agriculture
Karma and 'create' are distant cousins. Sanskrit 'kṛ' (to do) and Latin 'creāre' (to bring into being) both descend from PIE *kʷer- (to make). Karma is 'what you do'; creation is 'what you make.' The same root also produced 'Ceres,' the Roman goddess of grain — agriculture as 'the making' that sustains
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