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as a rule. All men do not bind unto themselves such karman only and so take different kinds of birth, i. e. are born in different wombs. Similarly, animals who in this-worldly existence have on account of their deceit. etc. bound unto themselves nāma and gotra karman pertaining to animals, are reborn as animals. But all animals do not bind such karman and so all are not necessarily reborn as animals. Thus the state of a jīva is dependent upon karma. (1800)
When his doubt had been removed by Lord Mahāvīra, Sudharmă became a monk along with his five hundred followers (1801).
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