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Entry विगुण

विगुणviguṇaa.Destitute of merits, worthless, bad; श्रेयान्- स्वधर्मो विगुणः परधर्मात् स्वनुष्ठितात् Bg.3.35; Śi.9.12; Mu.…
1. Destitute of merits, worthless, bad; श्रेयान्- स्वधर्मो विगुणः परधर्मात् स्वनुष्ठितात् Bg.3.35; Śi.9.12; Mu. 6.11.
2. Destitute of qualities.
3. Having on string; विगुणीकृतकार्मुकोऽपि जेतुं भुवि जेतव्यमसौ समर्थ एव Mu.7.11.
4. Unfruitful; विगुणानि च पश्यन्ति Mb.12.269.37.
In the Gita3·35 18·47

श्रेयान्स्वधर्मो विगुणः परधर्मात्स्वनुष्ठितात् ।

śreyānsvadharmo viguṇaḥ paradharmātsvanuṣṭhitāt, — Better is one’s own law of works, svadharma, though in itself faulty, than an alien law well wrought out; death in one’s own law of being is better… 3·35
- विगुणःviguṇaḥnominative singular of the masculine form of the adjective viguṇa (void of qualities, deficient, imperfect, faulty).
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