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this connection following the procedure adopted in the ‘Introduction'. As for the moderately competent students, they shoud be provided with a good number of interesting points of information so that they are in a position to take up the task of comparison some time afterwards.
(d) After they are given a lesson in line with the just offered suggestions the students should be asked to read out for themselves Rājavārtika related to the aphorism under study. They on their part, after they have completed the reading, should note down on a paper the questions to be asked and the points needing clarification and these questions and these points should be placed before the teacher the next day. At the time of discussing them the teacher should, as far as possible, make the students themselves say in the course of a mutual exchange of thought all that he ought to have said in this connection himself acting as a mere neutral helper). The aim is to polish out the understanding of the students so that they can see for themselves as to what points of the bhāsya and Sarvārthasiddhi have been left out in Rājavārtika, what points have been additionally introduced in it, what is new about these additional points.
(3) After the special study of the bhāsya and Sarvārthasiddhi is thus buttressed by a perusal of Rājavārtika, then a catalogue should be made of the points that are absent in all these three texts, are worthy of attention and are discussed in ślokavārtika; and then as might be convenient these points should be taught to the students or they should be asked to read them out for themselves. All this done, it should be explained to the students as to how much and what advancement has been gradually made by the four commentaries in question and in doing so how much profit each has derived from the other systems of philosophy—and how much contribution has been made by each commentary to the other systems of philosophy.
(4) If for some reason the self-reading or teaching of Rājavārtika is not possible, then too a catalogue should be made of such points of ślokavārtika as are also well discussed in
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