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separate nor separable from the kärman body. In each case, it is the outlet of energy which is relevant.
A. 46. For the last portion, perhaps a more appropriate rendering will be: "...and not when these conditions are reversed". So to be replaced is the portion as follows: "and not when there is no affluence but other conditions are fulfilled."
Q. 57-67 When two objects are involved, the total number of forms are 1204. Similarly are stated the number of forms for three, four, till an infinite number of objects, the meaning of which is difficult to catch by people who are not connected with the Jaina tradition.
Q. 69. The word aśiviṣa stands for reptiles who have poison in their teeth. Some are poisonous reptiles by birth and others are by karma. The latter is a power derived by developed animals and human beings to do harm to others. Such souls cannot move up beyond the eighth heaven, and they are never developed. According to A. 73, such reptiles by karma may exist among the divine beings but not among the infernal beings, nor among one, two, three or four-organ animals. (A. 74)
A. 85. Abhāsa is a bare indication from a distance. Iha refers to an enquiry to check the correctness or otherwise of the indication. Avaya stands for a determination that it is this and not anything else. With dharaṇā the thing is fixed in mind so that the memory is not erased even at a gap of time. Nandi Sutra has the following synonyms for these four which are as follows:
ābhāsa or avagraha-avagrahaṇa, upadhāraṇa, śravaṇa
avalambana, medhä,
ihā—ābhogana, mārgaṇa, gabesaṇa, cintă, vimarṣa. avāya-ābartaṇa, pratyāvartana, avāya, buddhi, vijñāna,
