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Adharma
Adharma (Sanskrit: a + dharma): non-righteousness. The 'a' doesn't literally mean 'not', but used as a prefix (much like 'mis' in misunderstood).Adharma is the antonym of Dharma. Connotations include wrong, bad, immoral, wickedness; the vices.
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Adharma
Adharma (Sanskrit) [from a not + dharma law, justice, morality, truth from the verbal root dhri to bear, sustain, resolve] Untruth, unrighteousness, immorality; in the Bhagavad-Gita (4:7) Krishna says: "O Bharata, whenever there is in the world a decline of dharma and spread of adharma I reproduce myself."
As a proper noun, name of a prajapati (progenitor); also of an attendant of the sun. Its feminine form, adharma, personifies the bride of death.


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