aDarmaH [ na . ta .] 1 Unrighteousness, irreligion, impiousness, wickedness, injustice; °daMqanaM Ms. 8. 127 unjust punishment; aDarmeRa unjustly, in an improper way; yaScADarmeRa pfcCati Ms. 2. 111 ; an unjust act; a guilty or wicked deed; sin; °cArin committing unjust or unrighteous deeds; so °Atman of an irreligious spirit; tadA kaTaM °BIruH Ś. 5 ; °maya full of wickedness or sin; for definitions &c. of Darma and aDarma See Tarka K. P. 19. ( Darma and aDarma are two of the 24 qualities mentioned in Nyāya, and they pertain only to the soul. They are the peculiar causes of pleasure and pain respectively. They are imperceptible, but inferred from reasoning and from transmigration.) 2 N. of a Prajāpati or of an attendant of the sun. — rmA Unrighteousness personified. — rmaM Devoid of attributes, an epithet of brahman . Comp. — astikAyaH the category of aDarma , See astikAya .