In the Vestibules of Karma

I "The sage Jabali turned round and looked at me," said the parrot Vaisampayana skilled in the Sastras, "with an effort to recognise something that he had known before spoke gently thus 'this one too is reaping the fruits of his own misconduct " The Kadambari is a story of action and their fruits in

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कालघाटगी कादम्बरी और यशोधरचरित के माध्यम से कर्म-सिद्धान्त का परिचय देते हैं, फिर जैन बन्ध-विवेचन की तुलना बौद्ध मत से करते हैं, जहाँ सर्वास्तिवादी पर्वत और नदियों को भी कर्मजन्य मानते हैं, तथा ब्राह्मण परम्परा के फलभोग और पुण्य-संक्रमण के सिद्धान्तों से करते हैं। Kalghatgi traces the karma doctrine through the Kadambari and the Yasodharacarita, then sets the Jaina account of bondage beside the Buddhist, where the Sarvastivadins make mountains and rivers themselves products of karma, and beside the Brahmanical theories of retribution and the transfer of merit.

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