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AN EPITOME OF JAINISM. (artav) which passes through certain stages of development while coursing downwards into the uterus (Farayu) where it awaits the embrace of the spermatozoa at the climax of the congress. The new being that the mother conceives, according to the Jains, is 'but a jiva that has just laid aside its mortal coil, the oudàrika body, elsewhere, and directly comes rushing in with lightning speed to plant itself in the ovum just fertilsed through the processes of coition for its reception. It is true that through the processes of impregnation and reproduction innumerable jivas in the forms of spermatazoons in the seminal fluid meet their deaths; but none of these is born as the child conceived by the mother in the act of coition.
2. VIHAYO GATI NAM KARMA. 74-75. Vihdyo gati means gait and deportment in one's movement and the set of action currents which control this gait and deportment in the movements of the riva, is named as vihâyo gati karma : This vihayo gati karma is either (i) shubha: (good) and (ii) ashubha (bad). It is with this vihayo
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