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The Doctrine of the Jainas, Described after the Old Sources c8.213

The Doctrine of the Jainas, Described after the Old Sources c8.213

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c8.213

Finally it is stated (Viy. 257 b) which certain qualities of the soul or of its bearer lead to binding the individual *kamma-pagaḍi*. Physical constitution, as (a. o.) the quality of being fully developed (§ 63), speech and subtlety, ranges side by side with intellectual constitution, as (a. o) sexual sensation (veya), self-discipline, cognition and its formal distinctness (§ 82), and each is multiplied by its negation, its intermediate conditions and its individual cases. To give an example we may refer to the reasonable being (sannī) in which case + means bandhai, ± siya bandhai siya no b. (=bhayaṇāe b.) and —na b.

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