Word origin · etymology
Sanskrit transliteration: kāraka.
Kāraka means maker, doer, or producer, from kṛ, to do; in astrology it supplies the language of a significator.
Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary: kāraka (University of Hyderabad) ↗
How we know · epistemology
Contextual symbolic assignment
A planet represents a topic because a specified rule assigns that role. Fixed and variable significator schemes need not agree; the assignment should be shown explicitly rather than treated as a physical property of the planet.
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