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Roots of skilfulness. There are two sets of three: 1.alobha, advesa, aloha;<br>2. puṇya-bhāgīya, mokṣa-bhāgīya, nirvedha-bhāgīya.  +
Unhindered knowledge. —► dharma-pratisaṃvid.  +
Discrimination in form of recollection; one of three forms of discrimination.<br> —► vikalpa.  +
Co-existent cause; one of six causes.—►hetu; anyonyānuparivartanaika kṛtya  +
A certain type of knowledge acquired by beings by virtue of being born<br> in a particular gati. E.g., hell beings possess by birth the<br> paracitta-jñana. For humans, this knowlege has to be acquired<br> through cultivation.  +
The fivefold sameness or equality the fulfilment of which two mental<br> factors are said to be conjoined (saṃprayukta):1.āśraya-samatā,<br> 2. ālambana-samatā, 3. ākāra-samatā,4. kāla-samatā, 5. dravya-samatā.  +
A male novice member of the Saṅgha who has not yet received the Higher<br> Ordination.  +
‘Fundamental/original Sarvāstivāda'. In spite of the name,<br> it is a sub-sect that branched off from the original Sarvāstivāda.  +
'Contemplation-factors,. There are five:(1) vitarka,(2) vicāra, (3 ) prīti,<br> (4) sukha, (5) cittaikāgratā. The first dhyāna has all 5; second,(3)-(5);<br>third, (4) and (5); fourth, only (5).  +
The ‘School of the elders’. The present-day Theravāda is a branch derived<br> rom the lineage of the Sthaviravāda in ancient India.  +