Book Title: Tattvartha Sutra
Author(s): Vijay K Jain
Publisher: Vikalp Printers

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________________ अध्याय-८ That on rise of which a body is attained by the soul is the name-karma of body – śarīra. It is of five kinds: the name-karmas of gross body - audārika śarīra, the transformable body vaikriyika sarira, the projectable body - āhāraka śarīra, the luminous body - taijasa sarira and the karmic body - karmana śarīra. Their peculiarities have been explained already (see sutra 2-36). That on rise of which the chief and secondary parts of the body are distinguished is the name-karma of the limbs and minor limbs - angopanga. It is of three kinds: the name-karmas of the limbs and minor limbs of the gross body - audārika sarira angopanga, of the transformable body vaikriyika śarīra angopanga, and of the projectable body-āhāraka śarīra angopānga. - That which causes the formation of the body with its several parts in their proper places is the name-karma of formation - nirmāņa. It is of two kinds: the name-karmas of fixing the position - sthānanirmāṇa and of fixing the size - pramāṇanirmāṇa. It determines the position and size of the eyes and so on in conformity with the class of being. The close union or binding of the particles of matter (pudgala) acquired on the rise of the body (sarira) name-karma is the namekarma of binding-bandhana. That on rise of which oneness or compactness of the body (śarīra) such as the gross body, is attained by close interpenetration (i.e., without any inter-space) of the space-points (pradeśa) of the molecules is the name-karma of molecular interfusion-samghata. That on rise of which the structure of the body, such as the physical body, is accomplished is called the name-karma of structure samsthāna. It is of six kinds: the name-karmas of the perfectly symmetrical body - samacaturasra samsthāna, the upper part alone symmetrical - nyagrodha parimandala samsthāna, the lower part alone symmetrical svasti samsthāna, the hunchbacked body kubjaka samsthāna, the dwarfish body - vămana samsthāna, and the entirely unsymmetrical or deformed body-hundaka samsthana. That on rise of which the different types of joints of the bones are 327

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