purusakAra
purusakāra- (= Skt. ), in °ra-phalam, one of the 5 phala ( q.v. ): Mvy 2274 ; sc. of karuṇā acc. to Sūtrāl. xvii.31 , comm. , fruit consisting of heroic deed, because it brings happiness to others and penance (austerity, tapas) to oneself , reading in text and comm. tāpaka instead of tāyaka, with Léviʼs note in transl. , but Léviʼs transl. ( qui éclaire le Moi ) seems clearly wrong; it brings pain to oneself, pleasure only to others; tapas surely cannot mean illumination ; it is this quality which makes it heroic ; in more general sense Bbh 102.17 , expl. 103.1—5 , puruṣakāreṇa yadi vā kṛṣyā … sasyādikaṃ lābhādikaṃ ca phalam abhinirvartayati …