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14. Gautama's reverence (saddha), doubt (samsaya) and curiosity/enquiry (koūhalla) have been repeated four times with the adjectives jāya, uppanna, saṁjāya and samuppanna, giving in all 12 forms. Reverence signifies not only desire to know the truth but also faith and respect for it. But it might be that Gautama had certain points about which he was in need of more light. Hence doubt. Gautama was a highly accomplished monk. His doubt, therefore, could not be on superficials, but on fundamentals, or certain aspects thereof. Curiosity was about how the master resolved the points of doubt.
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The four terms may also be explained as follows: Jāya implies the genesis of reverence, doubt and curiosity; in uppanna, each one of these takes a shape; the last two, saṁjāya and samuppanna, with the prefix 'sam' to jāya and uppanna, signify a process of intensification of the first two, since the enquirer was no ordinary person, but was himself in command of four types of knowledge.
Some commentators have explained the four expressions with altogether twelve forms in terms of 'superficial knowledge' (avagraha), 'desire to know more' (ihā), 'fulfilment of desire for more knowledge' (avaya), and 'being firm in knowledge' (dhāraṇā). Others have considered the four as signifying more or less the same thing, with slight intensification from one to the next one.
obeisance,
15. 'Vandai namansal'-paying homage and the former by expression and the latter by bowing one's head in a prescribed manner.
16. Humility as prescribed is as follows:
nidda-vigahā parivajjiehim guttehim panjaliudehim bhattibahumāṇapuvvaṁ uvauttehim suṇeyavvam
which means (1) giving up slumber and irrelevant talk; (2) controlling mind, body and expression; (3) with folded
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