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Karma Was a Verb First: What the Rigveda Actually Says About What You Do
The Rigveda uses the word karman thirty-six times and never once means what you think. Its ethical vocabulary comes from the workshop, not the courtroom: the word for a good deed is sukṛtá, 'well-made'. And in one verse, a dying man is told to go meet the deposit he left in heaven.