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kammaṁ — Frequency

Frequency for kamma across indexed Pali works, with sources and receipts.

Open word record

Stable lemma · Pali

kammaṁ

kamma · kamma

Term ID
term:pli:kamma
Scope
All indexed Pali works

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Returned frequency evidence · no new statistic

Frequency profile

kamma · Ranked corpus profile

Language
pali
Term identity
term:pli:kamma
Exact scope
Indexed language wing
Denominator
attested_tokens
Returned rows
5
Attested works
5

5 of 5 returned rows visible.

Select two to four returned works for raw-row juxtaposition. Selection creates no metric and runs no query.

Occurrences, token denominators, normalized rates, and evidence states remain separate. A bounded ranked return is not a complete corpus table.
Returned Selected order Work Attestation state Occurrences Denominator state Attested tokens Per 10k Continue Juxtapose
1 — Dhammapada work:pli:dhp dhp attested 8 available 5,252 15.23 Exact-work Concordance
2 — Udana work:pli:ud ud attested 10 available 20,047 4.99 Exact-work Concordance
3 — Itivuttaka work:pli:iti iti attested 4 available 11,565 3.46 Exact-work Concordance
4 — Digha Nikaya work:pli:dn dn attested 48 available 143,998 3.33 Exact-work Concordance
5 — Sutta Nipata work:pli:snp snp attested 6 available 20,164 2.98 Exact-work Concordance
Evidence boundary, sources, and receipt

Corpus totals and the bounded returned window remain distinct. Zero appears only for a known lemma in an exact work; unknown lemma and unavailable denominator are separate states.

  • Occurrences, denominators, per-10k rates, Range, and DP are preserved returned evidence; this workbench validates their invariants but creates no new metric.
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  • Frequency evidence does not establish significance, representativeness, language-wide commonness, genre, chronology, semantic importance, causation, equivalence, proximity, order, or diachrony.
  • This projection adds no fetch, API, network, SQL, D1, provider, storage, persistence, export, or receipt authority.
Sources
source:pli:bilara-data
Receipt
unavailable · no_materialized_frequency_receipt

Source-by-source word evidence

Lexical authorities

1 lexicon records · 0 etymology pointers

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Dictionary and historical-lexicon records

Lexicon shelf

1 returned
  1. 1 Kamma Kamma
    PTS Pali-English Dictionary (Rhys Davids & Stede, 1921-25)
    Entry ID
    lex:pli:Kamma
    Normalized headword
    kamma
    Entry locator
    Kamma
    Display posture
    not reported
    Entry body
    served
    Audit
    pending_source_review
    Review
    source_pending

    Short gloss · not a complete definition

    neuter the doing, deed, work orig. meaning (see karoti ) either building (cp. Lit kùrti, Opr. kūra to build) or weaving, plaiting (still in mālākamma and latā˚ “the intertwining of garlands and creepers”; also in kamma-kara possibly orig employed in weaving, i.e. serving); cp. Lat. texo, to weave =

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    neuter the doing, deed, work orig. meaning (see karoti ) either building (cp. Lit kùrti, Opr. kūra to build) or weaving, plaiting (still in mālākamma and latā˚ “the intertwining of garlands and creepers”; also in kamma-kara possibly orig employed in weaving, i.e. serving); cp. Lat. texo, to weave = Sk. takṣan builder, artisan, & Ger. wirken orig. weben. Grammatically karman has in Pāli almost altogether passed into the -a decl., the consonant forms for instr. & abl. kammā and kammanā gen. dat kammuno, are rare. The nom. pl. is both kammā and kammāni. I. Crude meaning (lit.) Acting in a special sense i.e. office, occupation , doing, action, profession. Two kinds are given at Vin.iv.6 , viz. low (hīna) & high (ukkaṭṭha) professions. To the former belong the kammāni of a koṭṭhaka and a pupphacchaḍḍaka, to the latter belong vāṇijjā and gorakkhā ■ Kamma as a profession or business is regarded as a hindrance to the religious life, & is counted among the ten obstacles (see palibodha ). In this sense it is at Vism.94 expl d by navakamma (see below 2a) ■ kassa˚ ; ploughing, occupation of a ploughman Vism.284 ; kumbhakāra˚ ; profession of a potter Ja.vi.372 ; tunna˚ ; weaving Vism.122 ; Pv-a.161 . purohita˚ ; office of a high-priest (= abstr n. porohiccaṃ) Snp-a.466 ; vāṇija˚ ; trade Sāsv. 40 ■ kammanā by profession Snp.650 , Snp.651 ; kammāni (pl.) occupations Snp.263 = Kp.v.6 (anavajjāni k. = anākulā kammantā Snp.262 ). paresaṃ k˚ṃ katvā doing other people’s work = being a servant Vv-a.299 ; sa˚ pasutā bent upon their own occupations DN.i.135 , cp. attano k˚-kubbānaṃ Dhp.217 . kamma-karaṇa-sālā work-room (here: weaving shed) Pv-a.120 . Acting in general, action , deed, doing (nearly always-˚) (active) act, deed, job, often to be rendered by the special verb befitting the special action like cīvara˚ ; mending the cloak Vv-a.250 ; uposatha˚ observing the Sabbath Vb.422 ; nava˚ ; making new renovating, repairing, patching Vin.ii.119 , Vin.ii.159 (˚karoti to make repairs); Ja.i.92 : Vism.94 , adj. navakammika one occupied with repairs Vin.ii.15 ; SN.i.179 ; patthita˚ the desired action (i.e. sexual intercourse) Dhp-a.ii.49 kammaṃ karoti to be active or in working, to act nāgo pādehi k.k. the elephant works with his feet MN.i.414 ; kata˚ ; the job done by the thieves Dhp-a.ii.38 (corehi), as adj. kata˚ cora (& akata ˚cora) a thief who has finished his deed (& one who has not) Vism.180 also in special sense: occasion for action or work, i. e; necessity , purpose: ukkāya kammaṃ n’atthi, the torch does not work, is no good Vism.428 . (passive) the act of being done (-˚), anything done (in its result) work , often as collect. abstr. (to be trsl d .

Side-by-side source-authorized definitions

Definition comparison

1 of 1 returned entries eligible

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Recorded authority pointers

Etymology shelf

0 returned

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Lexicon result receipt
Not materialized · no_materialized_lexicon_receipt
Etymology result receipt
Not materialized · no_materialized_etymology_receipt

Root tokens remain claims recorded by their named authority. This collation asserts no consensus, correctness, completeness, chronology, cognacy, derivation, or semantic equivalence, and creates no composite receipt.

Deep etymology

Authority pointers

no pointers returned

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The etymology lookup completed and returned no authority pointers for this lemma. This is not evidence that the word has no history or that no authority treats it.

Etymology receipt
unavailable etymology_lookup no_materialized_etymology_receipt
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