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with each other by the topic(s) treated in their first udd. (XVI 1 and XVII 1; XIX 3 (1-2 being references) and XX 1) or in their end udd. (XVI 11-14 and XVII 13-17, see also XIX 10).62 Likewise different udd, sometimes are connected by the first or the last topic they treat (e.g. III 41, 5', 61 and VII 26, 36, 87). Here we must not speak of enframement but rather of parallelism. XVI i as compared with XVII 1 (and probably several other places63) furthermore would seem to imply that parallelism even played a role in the sequence of the topics; for the details suffice it to refer to § 22.
A number of connections existing between the last udd. of different sayas cannot, in my opinion, be explained as mere parallelisms. Certain topics, it would seem, are 'final' by which I mean that they are preferably treated at or towards the end of a saya. The same ordering principle is found in Thāņa, where cosmological data as a rule stand at (about) the end of the chapters. 64 As for the Viy., among 'final topics I would reckon the refutation of dissidents (I 101-2, II 51.7[6], VI 101.3, VII 10, VIII 10"; cf. also IX 332 on Jamāli's dissidence), the gods (II 7-8, V 95, X 4-6, XI 12, XII 9, XVI 9. 11-14, XVII 13-17, XIX 10) and, as is the case in Thāņa, cosmological facts (II 9, V 92-4, X 7-34, XI 10.111) esp. the atthikäyas (II 10, VII 10-). Likewise at least one topic, viz the attraction of matter (āhāra), appears to be typically 'initial scil. is generally treated at or near the beginning of a saya (see I 12 seqq., VI 2, VII 11, XIII [1].3, XVIII 1(2), XIX 3, XX 1, XXV 13).
Neither in Thāņa nor in Viy. the principle has been universally put into practice. Much evidence regarding this ordering method probably was blurred by the effects of the application of such other methods and principles as have been discussed above as well as by the rearrangement of the chapters on account of accretions and the like.
62 Or in an udd. towards the end of the saya (cf. II 8, X 6, XVI 9, XVII 5; cf. also note 21 above), probably also in two corresponding udd. (cf. VII 3 and VIII 3, XVI 22 and XVIII 2).
63 Cf. I 96-8 and VII 21-6, VI 91-2 and VII 87.9', VII 10-2 and XVIII 36.41. 64 SCHUBRING, Lehre par. 45,3.
65 II 6 seqq. seem to be additions. Also the annautthiya-texts in Thāņa and Jiv. referred to in notes 36 and 37 stand at the end of an uddesa.
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