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Jaina Karmology
127 (2) Physiology : Respiration, completioned, non-completioned. (3) Sociology : Destinity, genus, common body, individual body, ford-builderness, mobile, non-mobile. (4) Psychology (General) : Touch, taste, smell, colour, self-harm, alien- harm. (5) Psychology (Personality) : Auspicious and inasuspicious body, amiable and non-amiable appearance, melodious & harsh voice, lustrous & non-lustrous body, firm & non-firm body, fame & defame.
6. The definitions and details of different secondary or tertiary species of this karma indicate what is to be generally known about the body and its functions and personality development. All these individual-based properties have karmic origin. There has been a good amount of additional knowledge about these points during the last two or three hundred years which has supplemented the informations contained in the commentary.
7. Besides karmic factor, many other physical factors have also been pointed out at least for personality development. Of course, it is not only the physical structure and outer appearance of health, beauty, body lustre etc. which determine personality, but there are social, cultural, environmental, economic, sex, age, mental makeup, knowledge, genetic and other factors too which also build it up. Thus, personality is a psycho-physical phenomena. It seems all primary karmic species are involved in building it in this or that way. This karma is, however, a major contributor.
8. Grammatically, the aphorism 8.11 consists of two types of compounds: (1) coupling compound in the first part and (2) couplingcum-appositonal compound in the second and third part.
The sub-species bondage of the sixth species bondage of physique-making karma has been detailed with respect to its names, states, structures etc. What are the sub-species of the seventh karmic species of status-determining karma ? The next aphorism describes them:
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