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THE DOCTRINE OF KARMA AND TRANSMIGRATION
24. The female sex desire (stri-veda)
25. The neuter sex desire (napumsaka-veda)37 V. Ayuşkarma: Jainism recognizes four kinds of existence according to the age determining karmas. They are as follows:
1. the celestial age
2. the age of human beings
3. the age of plants and animals
4. the age of hellish beings38
VI. Nāma-karma: it is divided into four groups comprising ninetythree sub-types. It is responsible for the diversity of worldly beings and the theory of rebirth. The number of division into four groups is as follows:
1. Collective types
2. Individual types 3. Self-movable bodies 4. Immovable bodies39
Sixty-five Collective Types
According to Jainism, all the wordly beings can be divided into four states of existence, they are:
1. The existence of gods (devagati)
2. The existence of human beings (manuşyagati)
3. The destiny of animals and plants (tiryaggati)
4. The state of infernal beings (narakagati)
Five Classes of Beings
1. The beings with one sense like earth, water etc.
2. The beings with two senses like shell etc.
3. The beings with three senses like ants etc.
4. The beings with four senses like mosquitos, flies etc.
5. The beings with five senses like plants, animals and human
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Five Types of Bodies
1. Physical body attributed to human and animal beings.
2. Transformed body possessed by superhuman power, gods, infernal beings etc.
3. Translocation body. It is created only by the highly spiritual ascetic in order to get information from the omniscient being,
Karmagrantha, I. 14-22.
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38. Ibid., I. 23.
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Ibid., 1.23, 51; Jainendra Siddhanta Kosa, vol. II, p. 582.
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