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status and other conditions of the individual jiva. 1 According to this theory, nāma karma determines the different formulations of the bodily forms of the different individual status and the determining experiences."
The nama karma has been very often compared to a painter who paints various pictures of men and animals. A good painter presents varieties of forms of animals and birds. Similarly, nămakarma presents the determined life of individual soul in different stages like naraka, mānava (human) or heavenly status. This karma determines the bodily form, the different limbs of the body, senseorgans and the general stature of the individual body. "
Nāma karma primarily is of two types: (1) Śubhanāma karma which gives auspicious presentations and (2) aśubhanāma karma which gives inauspicious presentation. The first is the consequence of punya (merit) and the second is determined by demerit (papa). Nāma karma expresses itself into forty-two types of consequential forms.5 They are:
1. Gati nama-It determines the status of the individual soul in (a) hell, (b) lower animal states, (c) in the human states and (d) in the stage for the heavenly beings.
2. Jati nama-The nama karma that determines the form of the individual with reference to sense-organs and the species of the animals is called the jati nima. It has five forms: 1. one-sensed organism, 2. two-sensed organism, 3. three-sensed 4. four-sensed and 5. five-sensed organisms. These are determined by the năma karma.
3. Śarīra nāmakarma-It determines the type and the form of the sarira that the jiva gets as the fruits of its karma. It has five
1 Prajñāpand 23, 1, 288 tikā
2 Gommatasă ra karmakāṇḍa 12.
3 (a) Sthānanga 2, 4, 105 tikä
(b) Navatattva Sahitya Sangraha, avacūrṇi vṛttyadi same aṁ, -Navatattvaprakaraṇaṁ 74
(b) Thaṇānga 2, 4, 105 ṭīkā.
4 Uttara 33, 13
5 (a) Samavāyāṇga samavāya 42, (b) Prjañāpanā 23, 2-293.
(c) Tattvärihasūtra 8, 12.
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