karma-kanda
कर्मकाण्ड karmakāṇḍaThe 'action portion' of the Veda, the hymns and ritual texts concerned with sacrifice and its rewards, as distinct from the jnana-kanda.
Where this term appears
- Dharma, Karma and Rebirth Essentials
The first is ritual action, karma-kanda , the performance of sacrifice and rite.
- The Three Paths to Liberation: Karma, Bhakti and Jnana Essentials
The first is the karma-kanda , the "action portion": the hymns and the elaborate ritual manuals, the Samhitas and Brahmanas, which are concerned with what to do , the sacrifices and rites that sustain the order…
- The Layers of the Word Treatise
Karma-kanda and jnana-kanda Later tradition gave this internal split a name, and the name is worth knowing precisely because it can mislead.
- The Sitting-Near Treatise
The Samhitas and Brahmanas are the karma-kanda , the portion concerned with karma in its oldest sense, ritual action.
- What 'karma' doesn't mean Journal
The whole early science of sacrifice, the karma-kanda , is named for it.
- The first secret Treatise
This is karma in its oldest sense, which the tradition later called karma-kanda , the domain of ritual action, and it is worth being clear that the site's overview of dharma, karma and rebirth already lays out …