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natural sex and grammatical gender with reference to day-times and tithis (21). Increase and decrease of the value (aggha) of property (bhanda) with reference to time units on account of what the client has told (Agghappamāna 22). Predictions concerning fire and floods (23.24). The time units, increasing in length as they are, referred to actions and objects interrelated and, for their part, increasing in significance (e.g. muhutta, divasa, pakkha, māsa devānam panāma, vandita, thuti, namamsita) (25). Similar reflections about kāla of an uppāya. Its length according to what happened to occur in the client's words (26). Duration and precise term (month, seacon etc.) of an upp. as inferred from the client's touching and seizing of his own limbs (Kālappavibhāga 27).
60. The preceding life of the client as a god, a human being, an animal or a denizen of hell inferred from what he has presently experienced or related (Puvvabhavavivāga Col: Purimabhavavibhāga). The same, in inverse sequence, }denotes the client's destiny in the next following life (Upapattīvijaya). The Angav. is a most remarkable work not only owing to its size and the subject treated but thanks to giving us numerous insights into the daily life of the time Long lists of individual qualities (as descent, name, occupation), town and house portions, household utensils and public institutions provide a picture of life as led in the early centuries A.D. It follows that apart from stereotype expressions the Jain character of the work is not distinct throughout. The language is near to Jain Sauraseni.
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Ed. Angavijjā (Science of Divination through physical signs and symbols) ed. by PUNYAVIJAYA. (Prakrit Text Society, Vol 1) Ban 1957-A detailed review by the AUTHOR ZDMC 109, p. 44 f.-459
