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Jaina Karmology
157 auspicious status determining karmas. Thus, we have auspicious life span, auspicious physique making and auspicious status determining karmas as the merit earning species. 2. The auspicious life-span karma has three forms: (1) sub-human life-span, (2) human life-span and (3) celestial life-span. These three species of life-span karma are called auspicious or beneficial. 3. The auspicious physique-making karma has thirty seven meritearning sub-species. They are given as below: (1-2) Human destinity, celestial destinity. (3)
Genus of five-sensed category. (4-8)
Five bodies as in 8.11. (9-11)
Three limbs and minor limbs.
Regular symmetrical configuration. (13)
Admantine-wrapped-nailed body joint. (14-17) Auspicious touch, taste, colour, smell. (18-19) Successory transmigration of human and celestial
destinities. (20-25) A-heavy-a-lightness, alien-killing, breathing, Hot light,
cold light, auspicious space-movement. (26-37) Mobileness, grossness, completionedness, individual
body, firmness, auspicity, amiablity, melodious voice, lustrous body, reputation and renown, formation and
ford-builderness. There is only one species of the auspicious status-determining karma-high status.
The pleasure feeling-producing karma is also auspicious. Thus, we have forty two karmic species which are designated as meritbonding or merit-earning species.
The next aphorism intends to mention the demerit-earning species of karmas:
ATONYAT - PĀPAM. 8.26 The remaining karmic species are designated as demerit or demerit-earning ones. 8.26.
The karmic species which are not included in the merit-bonding category are termed as demerit, demerit-bonding or demerit-earning. There are eighty two of them. They are as follows: A. sub-species of destructive karmas : 45. (1-5) five sub-species of knowledge-obscuring karma.
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