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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who dispenses retribution; one who requites according to merit or demerit.
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Through its actions it burdens itself with merit and demerit, the consequences of which it has to bear or enjoy in series of future embodied existences, the Lord -- as a retributor and dispenser -- allotting to each soul that form of embodiment to which it is entitled by its previous actions.
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 George Thibaut 1881
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