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benefit of abstraction, the non-possession of which prohibits tlie attainment 

 ofmucti, or final beatitude. It relates also to sleep, awaking of one's own 

 accord, being awake, sleep-walking, &c. Whoever sleeps to the degree of 

 Baladeva will be banished to the seventh hell. It also treats of the impedi- 

 ments to a knowledge of the past and tlie future. 



The third is the Bedant carma : it has two natures. Whoever makes no 

 distinction between pleasure and pain, shews his perfect wisdom, and he who 

 is neither happy under prosperity, nor unhappy in misfortune, possesses the 

 Bedani carma. He, who distinguishes between them, will have thirty cror of 

 sdgarupamas of birtlis in this world. It treats of receiving and giving 

 comfort, and of receiving pain by giving it to others. 



The fourth carma is Mohani, which bewilders the mind, and is not 

 controlled by Indra, Dharanidhara, or Chacravarti. It acts like intoxi- 

 cation. It treats of the four migrations in one person, from a god to a man, 

 to a brute, and to hell : also of truth and falsehood, of full belief in gods, 

 priests, and the true faith ; of anger, which sears the soul of the enraged as 

 well as that of the object, like flaws on a rock not to be effaced ; of pride, 

 which is like a pillar that supports nought ; of enmity, injurious to both par- 

 ties, like the chafing of a knotty pillow ; of avarice, which disfigures the heart 

 with an indelible stain; of enjoyment; of contentment ; of pity and huma- 

 nity ; of those who in dying think of a woman, and become women in the 

 next birth ; and of women who become men in the same way. 



The fifth carma is called ogha. It treats of souls passing into wood 

 unchanged, through the four states, and of births in hell. 



The sixth carma, called crama, comprises ninety-three pracritis. It treats 

 more of the four estates : then of the different degrees of fliculty or intelligence 

 in the existence of earths, plants, shells, &c. which come to nought ; of the 

 lowest class of animals, such as vermin, worms, &c. ; then of bees, flies, &c., 

 which have a little intelligence ; of animals and man which have intellect ; 

 of the names* of different parts of the body, and of various births ; of 

 beauty, deformity, good or evil in disposition, &c. 



The seventh is Gutra caj-ma : wlioevcr overcomes this, will obtiiin mucli, 

 and mould imperfect existence as a potter his earthen pots.t 



• Thus the account rather presents a list or vocabulary than information. 



f This carina contains more on the subject of transmigration, but unintelligible to me. 



