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AN EPITOME OF JAINISM
But the karman-sarra in our philosophy
is of different make. It is true that the Jain Pranara as philosophy speaks of prinas as organic and the Jain bodily powers, but these develop only as philosophy
the seva ascends up the scale of evolution from lower to higher organisms. The highest type of organism of a leva has ten pränas and the lowest type must have at least four. Of the ten pronas or powers which are to be found in the higher types of organism as man, mmfive belong to the five organs of sense, viz., touch, taste, smell, sight and hearing. Add to these five, the three powers of body, mind and speech (काय मन वचन). The ninth is the power of inhalation and exhalation termed (FOTA) and the tenth is the ayu-balmor the power whereby is determined the longivity of, the Teva during which it has to keep to a certain definite configuration of the bodyin which, it might happen to enter in a particular stage of its existence determined by its own past • karma. The Jain philosophers hold, however, that of these pranas in their abstract or etherial forms, accompany the karna-sanira clothed in which the soul departs from an organism wherein it dwelt for a certain period
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