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accepted in smtis, puras and vedas. The sharing, inheritance or transfer of evil karmas is contrary to the doctrine of karmas, which postulates an exclusively personal responsibility for good and evil karma. But we find traces of the belief in sharing, inheritance, and transfer of evil karma in early literature like gveda, Atharvaveda.
The problem of mass or collective suffering such as due to natural cala3mities like draught, floods, earthquakes etc. was also explained as the consequence of the misdeeds of the ruler. The Buddha says that when kings are evil minded, his ministers become likewise; in consequence the rhythm of the seasons is disturbed, rain winds occur out of time and crops are poor, people suffer from sickness.21 The Mahabharata22 attributes the natural calamities to the sins of the ruler. This was supported by the Manu23 that a king who fails to do his duty of protection towards the subject shares, one-sixth of the sins of his subjects, where as the doctrine of karma which strongly emphasizes the element of personal responsibility for actions that each person enjoys and suffers the consequences of his own acts and there is no transference of merit. Nobody can share ones suffering and pleasure according to the theory of karma. Neither his kinsmen, nor his friends, nor his sons, nor his relations will share his suffering, he alone has to bear it; for the karman follows the doer.24 Nearest or dearest whosoever it is, nobody can share or transfer ones deeds to others as per Jainism.
Lord Mahavira, in Uttaradhyana Sutra rightly discussed that appakatta vikattaya, duhaa ya suhaaya.Soul experiences joy and sarrow according to ones own karma. If there is no law of karma, it means a complete abrogation of the law of karma by permitting an evil-doer to escape the consequences of his misdeeds by transferring the same to someone else and thereby make an innocent person suffer for the same. So Milindapa-ha 295-296 says emphatically, "An evil deed, O king, cannot be shared with one who has not done it, has not consented to do it. Well, O King, so is it that a good deed can be shared but not an evil one."It is not the case. The idea of sharing and inheritance of evil as embodied in the g-veda and Atharva veda and Mahabharata represents ideas of a stage prior to the formulation and universal acceptance of the classical doctrine of karma which strongly emphasizes the element of personal responsibility for actions. Law of Personal Responsibility
The main difference between the acceptance of God and theory of karma is that in case of God, moral responsibility of an individual is transformed to the almighty God and on the other hand,
