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a candidate for receiving instruction is saikṣa.
(5) He who has grown weak owing to a disease or the like is a glāna.
(6) A group of such monks who though disciples of various ācāryas study together and so are sharers in a common reading-of-the-scriptural-texts is gana.
TATTVĀRTHA SUTRA
(7) The group of disciples who have received initiation into the monastic order at the hands of a common ācārya is kula. (8) The followers of a religion constitute a sangha; it has four divisions-viz. monks, nuns, laymen, laywomen.
(9) He who has been initiated into a monastic order is
sādhu.
(10) He who is one's equal as regards qualifications like knowledge etc. is samanojña-that is, one enjoying the same status. 24.
The Sub-types of Svādhyāya :
Vācană, pracchanā, ānuprekṣā, āmnāya and dharmopadeśathese are the five sub-types of svādhyāya. 25.
To acquire knowledge, to render it free from doubt, lucid and ripe and to seek to propagate it-all this being comprehended under svādhyāya it has been divided into five sub-types crresponding to the order followed in a course of study, they are as follows:
(1) To take first lessons in the wording or the meaning of a text-that is vācanā.
(2) To make enquiries with a view to removing doubt or with a view to being particularly certain-that is pracchanā.
(3) To mentally ponder over the wording or the meaning of a text-that is anuprekṣā.
(4) To correctly repeat the wording of a text that has been learnt that is amnāya (meaning repetition).
(5) To grasp the secret of a text that has been learnt-that
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