Do the different senses of the word karma come from scripture or from usage?
In shastra itself it says yes there krti is used similar to karma and suffering the results of my own karma so that the word karma is used in the sense of reaction, so yeah I think these four words, these four senses are there in scripture itself we can look at specific verses and find it but more importantly the way we use it we use it in different senses there is a verse where Krishna uses this different senses in one verse Krishna says one who sees action in inaction and inaction in action is wise among people if we hear this we think I am not wise what does it mean one who sees action in inaction and inaction in action so what he means is so here what Krishna is referring to is karma is action here Krishna is using the word karma in the sense of simply action non-specifically and if one does action in the sense of scripturally following and doing in a mood of devotion then there will be no reaction so there the word akarma refers to the absence of reaction so action done spiritually does not bring reaction so here the word karma refers to action done selflessly and the second akarma in that karma refers to reaction akarmani, here karma refers to action in general, akarmani means one who does not do any action so one may be sitting in a forest doing no karmically binding activity but such a person Krishna says that person is contemplating on some objects maybe I could enjoy that then just by that the person will be bound by karma so here karma refers to karmic reactions that person is bound by karma and is going to get the karmic reactions this is 4.18 in the Bhagavad Gita this is one verse where we see multiple meanings of the word karma being used in the same verse Hare Krishna.