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needs further psychological study. In this way, caritramohaniya karma has twenty-five varieties and among them four saṁjvalana kaşaya and nine nokaṣāya i. e., thirteen varieties are the disturbances which affect partially. Therefore, they are called deśaghati, while the others (i. c. remaining twelve varieties have their effects totally. Therefore, they are called sarvaghāti.1 The duration of the mohaniya karma is for one antarmuhurta at the minimum and for 70 crores of crores sagara at the maximum.2
Ayuşkarma (Age Determining Karma)
Karma that determines the age of an individual jīva is called ayuşkarma. When the age determined by the karma is over the individual jiva embraces death."
This karma has been compared to the prison house. The udge sentences a prisoner to undergo punishment for a specific period and as soon as that period is over, he is released from the prison. Similarly, the individual jīva gets embodied in a particular body in a particular life for a specified period of time. For the determined period of time, the soul cannot be free from the bodily existence in that particular body. The ōyuşkarma is not concerned with giving pleasure or pain, but its function is to determine the age limit of a specific individual jīva.5
The consequential distinctions of ayuşkarma is of 4 types: 1. one that determines like the life span in the hell (naraka āyu), 2. the one determines the life span in the lower animals (tiryañca
1 (a) Sthähänga 2, 4, 105, tīkā
(b) Gommaṭasāra, karmakāṇḍa 39
2 (a) Uttaradhyayana 33, 21
(b) Tattvärthasūtra 8, 16
3 (a) Tattvärtharājavārtika 8, 10-2
(b) Prajñāpanā 23, 1
4 (a) Navatattva Sahitya Sangraha; vṛttyādisametaṁ, Navatattva
prakaranaṁ 74.
(b) Gommatasāra, karmakāṇḍa 11.
(c) Prathama Karmagrantha, gāthā 23
5 Thānanga 2, 4, 105 ṭīkā
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