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THE CANONICAL NIKSEPA
Following DELEU, we have used the abbreviation "HAMG". This stands for the following (see DELEU p. 15):
hell-beings (GUÉRINOT: habitants de l'enfer) elementary beings and animals (G.: animaux ] human beings (G.: hommes ] gods and goddesses (G.: dieux]
In our text, "HAMG" is always used as a collective term without specification of the individual terms actually mentioned (or implied) in the relevant canonical passages. The canonical vocabulary is fairly uniform, but there are differences, and the canonicaltexts do not favour a quadruple pattern of enumeration. Readers who refer to the original texts should consult the chart given above (GUERINOT, p.4); JACOBI's footnote in his translation of Utt. Chapter 36 (JACOBI, SBE 45, pp. 206-207); SCHUBRING's and VON GLASENAPP's books on Jainism.
