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AN EPITOME OF JAINISM. - 8. SPARSHA NAMA KARMA.
The word sparsha means touch. It is by touch that we understand whether a body is heavy or light, rough or smooth, warm or cold, and the like. And the set of action-currents which determine the nature and character of the tactuo-mascular sensation which bodies awaken in us through touch is named as the sparsha karma. Tactuomascular sensations are of eight kinds viz62–69. (i) Karkash-rough ; (ii) Mridusmooth ; (iii) Guru-heavy ; (iv) Laghulight ; (v) Shita-cold ; (vi) Ushna-warm ; (vii) snigdha --moist ; (viii) Rukshma-dry.
4. ANUPURVI NAMA KARMA. The word anupurva means order, series or succession, i.e. the order of the succession of bodies which the jiva has to migrate through after death. And the Anupurvi nama karma, therefore, signifies the actioncurrents which determine the course of movements which the jiva has to make in migrating out of the oudàrika body at death : we have seen before that after death, the jiva being wrapped up in kårman body migrates to that gati which is determined by
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