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Vijaya regularly examined various new and old paths and ways of entry and exit, gates, small and concealed doors, holes, windows, sewers, tunnels, etc. He frequented places like gambling houses, bars, whore-houses and their approaches as well as the hiding places of thieves. He also used to explore as well as collect all possible information about places like road junctions, squares; abodes of snakes, ghosts, lower gods, etc.; halls and other places of assembly; water huts, shops, forlorn houses; etc.
ज्ञाताधर्मकथांग सूत्र
Besides this, he kept abreast of all activities going on in the town, open or secret, like-family equations, ailments, separations, habits, problems created by state administration, economic windfalls, festivities, child births, feasts, religious ceremonies, festivals, travels and other movements. In other words, he was well informed about all such situations when people tend to get drunk, mad, agitated, disturbed, miserable or otherwise abnormal. On the basis of such information he would asses the weakness and vulnerability of individuals and look for an opportune moment to take advantage.
Vijaya also kept an eye on various picnic spots outside Rajagriha, like parks, gardens, water tanks, ponds, pools, remote woods, old wells, bushes and thickets, cremation grounds, caves, monuments etc.
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