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AN EPITOME OF JAINISM. (1) Hasya--frivolity. (ii) Rati—love ; (iii) Arati-hatred (iv) Shoka-sorrow; (v) Bhaya-fear; (vi) jugupsd--likes-and-dislikes ; (vii) Stri veda ; (viii) Purush veda and (ix) Napunsaka veda. All these are detrimental to the right conduct of the jivi.
Of these nine necessary Corelates of Passions, the first six we need hardly deal with, they being very widely understood as common emotions. To take therefore the last three ;(vii) Stri vedamis that kind of karma
which awakens sexual appetite in females at the sight of or in contact with males: just as the predominance of biliousness creates a desire for the sweets. The characteristic phenomenon of this erotic instinct in woman is such that a mere touch with the delicate and beautious parts which add to her personal charms quickens
this lower instinct into a debasing · animal propensity just as a mild
faning or blowing quckens the fire under ashes into a blaze to consume things.
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