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fruit of merit, (kármika); to possess also the bones like adamant, and the perfect form of a Tirthankare, a good colour, smell, taste, touch, and the proper proportion of heaviness, and lightness, inoffensiveness, moderate breathing, a brilliant countenance, elegant motion, and members all properly balanced, the state of a god, that of a man, that of the highest classes of animals, and that of a Tirthankar. These, in addition to the following ten modes of action, form the forty-two meritorious states. The modes of action are, voluntary motion, right use of the senses, of all the other organs, a separate body for the soul to act on, firmness in action, pleasantness in deportment, elegant gesture, speaking with a sweet voice, in a persuasive manner, and so as to elicit praise.
IV. The effects and causes of sin are the following :-The ten divisions of want of knowledge, [first of things mental, then of words, then a want of perfect knowledge of sensible objects, the want of knowledge of what is doing in all the forty-five divisions of the world, then in the fifteen the abode of man, next, want of omniscience ; besides there is incapacity of giving, inability to obtain the object of desire, incapacity of securing delight, and inability to enjoy]. There are also nine natural infirmities, [imperfection of sight and sleep ; of the former four, and of the latter five, viz., total want of sight, incapability of seeing what is not before
