adharma
अधर्म adharmaThe absence or opposite of dharma: disorder, unrighteousness; a principle, not a personified Devil.
Where this term appears
- Devas and Asuras Deities
The very next verse says that those who promote adharma must be slain by the gods as the fierce daityas were, which is a moral argument rather than a categorical one, and the brahmins in the story are annihilat…
- Eighty-five titles and no text: the Saura tantras and how a tradition disappears Lineages
It says that without the Sun there would be only darkness, and no distinction of dharma and adharma , and therefore the Sun witnesses and maintains everything.
- When will Kalki come, and what will he look like? Journal
…uity." The center of gravity in the Hindu texts is the destruction of adharma itself, of greed and lawlessness and false authority, more than the extermination of any ethnic or religious group.