Vipāka
Vipāka is a Jain and Buddhist term for the ripening or maturation of karma, or intentional actions. The theory of karmic action and result is a central belief within the Buddhist tradition.
Alternate translations
The term vipaka is translated as:- effect
- maturation
- ripening
- result
Vipaka :පු ඵලය, විපාකය, ආනිසංසය.
විපාක
ND'kamma-result', is any kammically neutral mental phenomenon, which is the result of wholesome or unwholesome volitional action through body, speech or mind, done either in this or some previous life. Totally wrong is the belief that, according to Buddhism, everything is the result of previous action. Never, for example, is any kammically wholesome or unwholesome volitional action the result of former action, being in reality itself kamma. On this subject s. titthāyatana, kamma, Tab. I; Fund II. Cf. A. III, 101; Kath. 162.
Kamma-produced corporeal things are never called kamma-vipāka, as this term may be applied only to mental phenomena.
විපාක PTS fruit, fruition, product; always in pregnant meaning of "result, effect, consequence," either as good & meritorious. Hence "retribution, reward or punishment. See on term e. g Dhs. trsln introd.2 xciii; Cpd. 43. 249. -- D iii.150, 160 176 sq.; S i.34, 57, 92 ; ii.128, 255 ; iv.186 sq., 348 sq.; A i.48, 97, 134, 263; ii.34, 80 112; iii.35, 172, 410 sq., 436 iv. 303 ; v.251; Sn 653 ; Ps ii.79 ; Pv i.91; i.107 & passim; Pug 13, 21; Dhs 431, 497, 987; Vbh 16 sq., 73, 319, 326 sq., 334 Kvu 353 sq., 464 ; Nett 99, 161 180 sq.; Tikp 27, 44, 48, 50, 292 328 sq., 350 sq.; Dukp 17; Vism 177, 454, 456, 538, 545 sq.; VbhA 17, 150 sq., 144, 177, 391; PvA 50 73, 77; Sdhp 12, 73, 197, 235.