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98 : Scientific Contents in Prākṛta Canons
3. Sports
4. Piercing/drilling
18 in 4 groups or 18
4 14 [861472 Arts ]
(c) Some canons have grouped similar two into one : (i) Arts of Metallurgy and Calcination (Sajivanirjiva of Metals)
3 sports (116, 117, 118) 2 crafts (119, 120)
(ii) Cara-Praticāra
(iii) Vyūha-Pratívyüha
(iv) Skandhāvaramāna and Skandhāvaraniveśa (v) Nagaramana and Nagaraniveśa (vi) iṣusāstra and Tṣarupravāda
Their distinctive meanings are not clear, still many canons, have them separately.
(d) Non-inclusion of many arts of Samavāyānga Table 7 indicates that Rajapraśniya, Jñātādharmakathā, Aupapātika, Antakṛta, Jambūdvipaprajñapti and Anuttaropapātika do not contain the following arts listed in Samavāyānga and Sūtrakṛtānga:
14, 25, 26, 27, 34, 35, 16, 17, 18, 124-138
There are some other cases too which could be easily sorted out individually.
(e) Additional listings in different texts
In contrast to (d) above, different canons have many arts which are not found in Samavāyānga and Sūtrakṛtānga. They are listed as below:
75, 81, 88, 90, 91, 94, 100, 101, 102, 114, 115, 120, 139, 140, 141.
(f) Many names of the arts are defined differently by different authors as shown below:
(i) Purāṇa-kāvya/Pauraskṛtya (a) Art of quick poetics (b) Guarding or administration of city
(ii) iśitva/īṣuśāstra
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