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AN EPITOME OF JAINISM.
gal and con
karma.
nuity of motion-karma. Other determi
nant conditions being there, it is the contiIndestructi. bility of pud- nuity of karma that explains why the protinuity of perties of a molecule of urea and that of
cyanate of ammonia are different, though they are composed of the same number of chemical elements and it is also this continuity of karma that accounts for the development of the diverse forms of a mollusc, a frog and a mammal though arising from apparently identical primitive cells.
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