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(årtar) which passes through certain stages of development while coursing downwards into the uterus (Jardyu) 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 ouddrika 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 impreg. nation and reproduction innumerable jivas in the forms of spermatazoons in the seminal Auid 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. Vihayo 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 jiva, 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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