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AN EPITOME OF JAINISM.
(iii) Manushyayu karma-is that by which a jiva is born in the human world to live and struggle there for a certain period of time.
(iv) Tiryanchâyu karma-is what determines the period of existence in the .
world of beasts and birds.
VI. THE NAMA KARMAS.
Nama karma, or action-currents determinant of names, forms (nam-rupa) and
The action
currents de environment which all combine to give the
terminant of Nâma-rupa.
jiva its individuality and singularity. But as the causes and conditions which determine and make up the personality and individuality by means of which a particular jiva is singled out from amongst the many, are of various kinds. The sages have thought it wise, therefore, to classify these karmas into two main divisions (a) Pinda-Prakriti (b) Prateyka Prakriti.
THE PINDA PRAKRITI NAMA KARMA Refers to those sets of action-currents which all combine in the concretion of Jivicenergetics in such a way as to make up its physical organism after a certain type, form, colour, configuration, localisation of position in
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