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place within the Jajna camp a maturization of systematic thought and the process took one special turo Thus the Jalna authors would often formulate a list of items and would pose questions and offer answers to them in terms of these items in the simplest case the question would be asked about these items themselves, in a ralatively more complex case the question would be asked whether a being-a being in general or one belonging to this or that type-is or is not characterized by this or that item and if it is then in what precise form, in the most coin plex case the question would be asked whether a being—& being in general or one belonging to this or that type-as characterized by this or that item does or does not satisfy a given description Ad illustration of the first type is
list that repeatedly occurs in Bhagavalt on P 80b, on p 95b, and as part of a bigger list on p 5718, lo the first case the question is whether it can be said about any two items taken at random that one precedes the other, in the second case it is whether this or that item is heavy or light or neither-beavy-oor-light, in the third case it is whether this or that item 15 or is not possessed of a colour, taste, smell, touch An illustration of the socond type is the list that occurs on p 508b, here it is asked about several types of vegetal being whether they are or are not characterized by the 33 items of the list 10 question and if they are then in what precise form AD illustration of the third type are the two lists that occur on p 5% , bere it is asked as to how many hellish beings characterized by the Items of the lists 10 question can be born simultaneously [All these illustrative lists are golog to be used by us in some connection or other] The following is a catalouge of the most important of the other such lists Occurring in Bhagavan (1) P 686
(6) P 762a (also 773b) (2) R. 2576
(7) p 770b (3) p. 2602
(8) p 772b ( p 345b
(9) P 790b (5) p 731b
The poteworthy point is that in almost all these cases there appearsckber 18 the original text itself or in Abbayadeva'a commentary-A summarizing verse enumerating the items of the list concerned, a procedure aimed not only at facilitating the memorization of the passages in question but also at cmphasizing the importance attached to the pressently reviewed process of 118l-formation that importange WAS certainly attached to this process becomes clearly cvideat from the perosal of the Bhagavatı Satakas 21-41 (minus 25) All these fatakas without an exception discuss this question or that in terms of a pre-formulated list of items Not only that, thero art alao Jataka that share the same llat of items and they ought to be
