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guna-karma

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In Sanskrit, 'virtue-fate.' This is another description of the Arya Samaj's idea that Dr. Ambedkar elsewhere calls Chaturvarnya. Basically, the idea is that each individual will be assigned to a caste appropriate to his personal attributes.