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A Short Survey of the Contents Pudgalas (24 in number), and the principles underlying this classification. It also contains in addition to the topics enumerated above, a discussion on the various kinds of yatis, brahmacārins, the brāhmaṇas, the bhikṣus, etc., the four alarnbanas, and the ānāpānasmrtibhāvanā.
The third Ys. contains a vivid account of the various aspects of ādikarmikacaryā and the manaskāra bhāvanā, the šamatha and vipaśyanā and various other kušala dharmas whose contemplation is essential for and conducive to the yoga-(samādhi)-bhāvanā.
The fourth Ys. deals with the several aspects of mindpurification (citt-višuddhi), the dhyānas, the samādhis and the ārya-satya-bhāvanā along with the sūnya-anātma-bhāvanā and the vajropama samādhi.
Thus, the S.Bh. contains a comprehensive account of the different aspects of the yoga-caryā beginning with śīla and ending with yoga samādhi bhāvanā.
Besides having aboundant materials on the caryā of of a Pudgala, it equally contains the Buddhist account of nutrition and its various minor details worked out in several aspects, the concepts of decease etc., and the various conducive factors leading to the purification of mind (cittasodhana) and samādhi sarniśraya. The abundant yoga. materials have been discussed in the Sanskrit introduction comprising portion on ‘yoga-sambhāra.'
Thus, the present text, illustrating as it does, the caryā of a yogācāra in its ābhidharmika stage, delineates the various aspects of the caryā of a pudgala in the career of a yogācāra in entirety and represents one of the links in the history of Indian Buddhistic discipline that have survived today and its importance from this point of view deserves to be emphasised.
