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1. Bahugrahi-This is the capacity to absorb more in terms of numbers and volume. To know many modes and forms of a thing, to know about a thing or subject of larger volume, etc. are included in this.
2. Alpagrahi-This is the capacity, to know only one mode of a thing or subject and that too to a minute degree.
3. Bahuvidhagrahi-This is the capacity to know a thing, substance, or subject in many ways. For example, to understand the type, form, shape, colour, length, breadth, etc. from varied perspectives.
4. Alpavidhagrahi-This is the capacity to know a thing, substance, or subject in fewer ways.
5. Kshipragrahi-This is the capacity to know the thoughts of a speaker or a writer through any sense organ or mind; also to recognize a thing or a person by a mere touch, in the dark.
6. Akshipragrahi-This is the capacity to know any subject of any sense organ or mind with slow speed in an unpracticed state caused by lower degree of kshayopasham or diverted attention.
7. Anishritgrahi-This is the capacity to know the properties and variations of a thing merely through focussed attention or inspiration even in absence of any cause or a medium.
8. Nishritgrahi-This is the capacity to know the properties and variations of a thing only with the help of some cause, medium, reason, etc.
9. Asandigdhagrahi-This is the capacity to know the properties and variations of a thing without any ambiguity.
10. Sandigdhagrahi-This is the capacity to know the properties and variations of a thing with ambiguity.
11. Dhruvagrahi-This is the capacity to know a thing or a subject on getting proper medium in a proper way with certainty and to retain the information always.
12. Adhruvagrahi-This is the absence of capacity to know a thing even after getting proper medium or to retain the information always, if known.
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