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while at the other end, the bone is simply straight and pinned.
42. Kilikā-saṁhanana nāma karma. The bones are straight at each end and nailed. No hook and no envelope.
43. Chevatthhu samhanana karma. This karma gives a joint where the bones simply touch, or are in sockets. Most of ours are like this; it is the weakest and worst form of joint. The teaching is that the greatest degree of concentration can only be attained in a body having the first mentioned joints.
GROUP 8 6. Saṁsthāna nāma karmas
44. Sama-caturasra-samsthāna nāma karma. By reason of this karma the body is symmetrical.
45. Nyagrodha samsthāna nāma karma. By reason of this karma the upper part of the body is symmetrical and the lower pant is not. The lower part is defective by reason of this karma.
46. Sādi saisthāna nāma karma. By reason of which the lower part of the body is symmetrical, but the upper part is not.
47. Kubja samsthāna näma karma. The trunk is deformed by reason of this karma, while the legs, arms, face, neck are symmetrical. (Humpback, for instance.)
48. Vāmana saṁsthāna nāma karma, by reason of this karma the arms and legs are defective, while the trunk is all right. [Dwarf, for example.)
49. Hunda saṁsthāna nāma karma, by reason of which everything is unsymmetrical. The bodies of animals, fish, birds, insects come under this class, the human form being considered as the symmetrical form.
All beings born in the womb may have any of these six kinds of bodies; those living beings not bom in the womb can have only the huņda body.
GROUP 9 5 Varna nāma karmas
50. By reason of the activity of this karma the living being is black or blue-black.
51. By reason of this karma the being is green. 52. By reason of which the being is yellow.
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