[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.foucher-1917) › c6.7 # The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c6.7 The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c6.7 - **Language:** English ### [c6.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.foucher-1917.c6.7) The second point is that not only the attainment of this deliverance, but the conditions even of each of the ephemeral existences are regulated automatically by a moral law as general and as unavoidable as the physical law of gravity, the law of « works », or (to employ a Sanskrit word, the use of which has been popularized by the theosophists) of Karma. At the death of each being there is drawn up a kind of debit and credit account, with assets and liabilities, between the sums of the merits and demerits accumulated by him in the course of his anterior existences : and an immediate sanction, resulting mechanically from this simple mathematical operation, fatally decides his future destiny. - [Previous: c6.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.foucher-1917.c6.6) - [Next: c6.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.foucher-1917.c6.8) - [Up: c6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.foucher-1917.c6) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.foucher-1917.c6.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.foucher-1917.c6.7) · Pramāṇa