Karma Philosophy

Author(s): Virchand R Gandhi, Bhagu F Karbhari
Publisher: Devchand Lalbhai Pustakoddhar Fund

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46. Sādi samsthāna nāma karma. By reason of which the lower part of the body is symmetrical, but the upper part is not.
47. Kubja samsthāna nāma karma. The trunk is de formed by reason of this karma, while the legs, arms, face, neck are symmetrical. (Humpback, for instance.)
48. Vāmana samsthāna nāma karma, by reason of this karma the arms and legs are defective, while the trunk is all right, (dwarf.)
49. Hundā smasthāna nāma karma, by reason of which everything is unsymmetrical. The bodies of animals, fish, birds, insects come under this class, the human sorm being considered as the symmetrical form. . All beings born in the womb may have any of thes e six kirds of bodies; those living beings not born in the womb can have only the hundā body.
GROUP 9. 5 Varna rāma 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 he (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