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these factors are explained by different kinds of Nāma Karma which operate and guide the construction of the organic body in each individual. 18
Umāsvāmi gives the particularities of the Nāma Karma on the rise of which a living being is born in another state of existence. The Nāma (physique-making ) Karmas comprise the state of existence, the class, the body, the formation of the chief and secondary parts, the binding (union), molecular interfusion, structure, joints, touch, taste, smell, colour, movement after death, neither heavy nor light, self-annihilation, annihilation by others, emitting warm splendour, emitting cool lustre, respiration, gait, individual body, mobile being, amiability, a melodious voice, beauty of form, minute body, complete development (of the organs), firmness, lustrous body, glory and renown, and the opposite of these commencing from individual body), and the Tirthankaratva.19
The enumeration is, wonderfully comprehensive so as to cover all states of existence and the classes of beings with (i) the sense of touch only (11) senses of touch and taste. (111) senses of touch, taste, smell, (iv) senses of touch, taste, smell, and sight, (v) and senses of touch, taste, smell, sight and hearing. This is due to the rise of Nāma-Karma of the class of one-sensed being and so on.
The Nāma-Karma of the body is of five kinds; there are five kinds of sariras or bodies (1) the audārika body or the gross body which is peculiar to human beings and animals; (2) vai kriyika or transformable body which is made up of fine and subtle matter capable of modifications in form and stature as the bodies of gods and denizens of hell; (3) āhāraka or a subtle or a spiritual man-like body which issues from the head of a perfect Jaina saint who has attained full knowledge and in consequence of the highly developed occult faculties of his soul and flashes across space to the feet of the master where its doubts are solved; (4) taijasa sarira or a body with a halo or the electric (magnetic) body and (5) kārmaņa śarira or the body constituted of kārmic particles.
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