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K. K Dixit
The items are as follows
(1) gati (life-species of four types) (2) indriya (3) kaja (4) yoga (5) veda (6) kaşara (7) lesya
(8) samyaktya (9) jnana (10) darsana (11) samyama (12) aharaha (13) sanjnin (14) bhavya
of these, inost items exclusively pertain to the mental sphere while things pertaining to the bodily sphere are said in connection with the Items 1-4 and 12 And these items bave been made use of in two ways, viz (1) by asking as to whether a being is or is not characterised by this item or that and if it is then in what precise form, and (2) by asking as to whether a being characterised by this or that item satisfies a particular description (which description might possibly be fairly complicated) Now the Bhagarant 'lists of items' earlier catalogued are also mostly an amalgam of the items pertaining to the mental sphere and those pertaining to the bodily sphere, and as we have seen these lists too have been made uso of in the just mentioned two ways [The list that repeatedly occurs on pp 80b, 95b, 571a is an exception on both these counts For firsly. It includes not only such items as pertain to the mental and bodily spheres but also such as pertain to the cosmographic and ontological spheres, and secondly, in connection with it questions have been asked about tho concerned iteins themselves Perhaps, here we have one example of a wayward tendency exhibited by some stray group of Jalna theoreticians at somo obscure period of history] The conclusion is inescapable- at least it 19 very plausible to conclude--that the Bhagavati passages containing the lists under consideration are representative of that process of groping which ultimately led to the catablishment of the classical doctrine of marganasthanas
Viewed in this back-ground the Bhagavanı batakas 21-23 and 24 are found to be employing a list of items 10 essentially the same manner in which it has beco employed in the earlier fatakas As a matter of fact, the Satakas 21-23 simply reproduce without any change the discussion contained on p508b (=the uddesahas 1-8 of the Sataka 11) What happens Is that the same discussion which to the earlier passage 18 connected with one vegetal type of being has been connected with certain other such types in the fatakas 21-23, but since all the vegetal types whatsoever stand in practically the same relation to the concerned list of items these later tatakas have practically nothing to add to what has already been said
