As a Hindi name
षट्कर्मा · noun · masculine
यजन याजन आदि नियत कर्मों को करनेवाला ब्राह्मण । कर्मनिष्ठ ब्राह्मण · तांत्रिक — Śabdasāgara
Cited formation "षट्कर्मा" is षट्कर्म + -आ: षट्कर्म means "ब्राह्मणों के छह् कर्म— (१) यजन, (२) याजन, (३) अध्ययन, (४) अध्यापन, (५) दान देना और (६) दान लेना", and the suffix -आ forms abstract, agent, action or instrumental nouns (masc.); also past participles. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(3) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
Cited formation "षट्कर्मा" is षट्कर्म + -आ: षट्कर्म means "ब्राह्मणों के छह् कर्म— (१) यजन, (२) याजन, (३) अध्ययन, (४) अध्यापन, (५) दान देना और (६) दान लेना", and the suffix -आ forms 'having' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(1) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
the six duties of Brāhmans (viz. adhyayana, ‘studying or repeating the Veda’, adhyāpana, ‘teaching the V˚’, yajana ‘offering sacrifices’, yājana, ‘conducting them for others’, dāna…
Dictionary-attested — inflected formWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "ṣaṭkarmā" is the nominative of "ṣaṭkarman" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
ṣaṭ—karman n. the six duties of Brāhmans (viz. adhyayana, ‘studying or repeating the Veda’, adhyāpana, ‘teaching the V˚’, yajana ‘offering sacrifices’, yājana, ‘conducting them for others’, dāna, ‘giving’, and pratigraha, ‘accepting gifts’), ŚāṅkhGṛ.; Mn. &c. (the six daily duties accord. to the later law-books, are, snāna, ‘religious bathing’, saṃdhyājapa, ‘repetition of prayers at the three Saṃdhyās’, brahma-yajña, ‘worship of the Supreme Being by repeating the first words of sacred books’, tarpaṇa, ‘daily oblations of water to the gods, sages, and Pitṛs’, homa, ‘oblations of fuel, rice &c. to fire’, deva-pūjā, ‘worship of the secondary gods either in the domestic sanctuary or in temples’), Parāś.; RTL. 394
six acts any one of which is allowable to a Brāhman householder as a means of subsistence (viz. ṛta, ‘gleaning’, amṛta, ‘unsolicited alms’, mṛta, ‘solicited alms’, karṣaṇa, ‘agriculture’, satyānṛta, ‘commerce or trade’, śva-vṛtti, ‘servitude’, the last being condemned), Mn. iv, 4, 5, 6, 9
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