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5. SARIRA NAMA KARMA.
Is the set of action-currents which determine the growth and development of the body (sarira) of the jiva of those sets of action-currents determining the character of the body ;10. (i) Oudárika sarira karma-is that set
of action currents which determine the ordinary physical body that we see, to come out actually from the mother womb. It is called ouddrika because it is born of the materials in
the womb (udara) of its mother. 11. (ii) Vaikriya sarira karma --is the set
of fine action-currents whereby is evolved a kind of subtle-body which is variable at will. It is possessed by the devas and angels who modify it into various forms some times enlarging it into a gigantic size with four arms and the like and at others reducing it into the minutest of the minute hardly
perceptible by our mortal eyes. 12. (iii) Aharak sarira karma-is the
set of action currents whereby a
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