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KARMA PHILOSOPHY
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47. Kubja samsthapa nama karma. The trunk is de formed by reason of this karma, while the legs, arms, face, neck are symmetrical. (Humpback, for instance.)
48. Vamana Samsthana nama karma, by reason of this karma the arms and legs are defective, while the trunk is all right, [dwarf.]
49. Hunda Samsthana nama karma, by reason of which everythiog is unsymmetrical. The bodies of animals, fish, birds, insects come under this class, the human form being considered as the symmetrical forni.
All beings born in the womb may have any of these sis kinds of bodies; those living beings not born in the womb can have only the bunda body,
GROUP 9. 5 Varna nāma karmas, namely: 50. By reason of the activity of this karma the living being is black or blue black,
51. By reason of this karma be [it] is green. 52. By reason of which the being is yellow. 53. By reason of which the being is red. 54. By reason of which the being is white-fair.
Of the above colours, the 1 and 2 are inferior, (though in respect to things other than colour the person may be superior), and the 3, 4, and 5 are superior colouis. It does not follow that because a person is inferior in this one particular that he is therefore inferior in all, or if superior, superior in
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