________________ stus Notes 79 some obstructs Dars'ana or True Faith;" some obstructs Character and so on. Thus at the time of the binding of the karmas with the soul, their different natures or potencies are decided and this is known as * Prakriti.' Thus here Prakriti means natural character or potency.'. Prakriti also means te or division'. In कम्माणं मूलपयडीओ. it has got this latter meaning, and hence this phrase means the Principal Divisions of Karma' which are 8 in number ( cf. Furta8 ) viz. (1) rarerurter (2) Fare curret (3) Hartie (4) Biacre (5) aqafter (6) STRI (7) ata and (8) TET. Out of these 8 main divisions of Karma, the first four are often called aifa Karnas, because they destroy the spiritual welfare of the soul and the last four are called staula as they do not do so. The former, four are sometimes also called famafara or those which we are bound to experience, and the latter four afar fara or farmers Karmas i.e. those which we may, by extraordinary exertions, evade. [ The fanfarces are also again divided into two sub-divisions viz. (1). sufentfern and (2) grafen out of which the stepfam fatis can be destroyed up to a certain limit, by practising hard and extremely pure inward penance, after which they must be experienced:
