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[Footnote 3: _Madhyamaka v@riti_ (B.T.S. 202-203). Poussin quotes from
_Digha_, II. 63, "si le vijnana ne descendait pas dans le sein maternel
la namarupa s'y constituerait-il?" Govindananda on S'a@nkara's commentary
on the _Brahma-sutras_ (II. ii. 19) says that the first consciousness
(vijnana) of the foetus is produced by the sa@mskaras of the previous
birth, and from that the four elements (which he calls nama) and from that
the white and red, semen and ovum, and the first stage of the foetus
(_kalala-budbudavastha_} is produced.]
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@sa@dayatana, spars'a, vedana, t@r@s@na, upadana and the bhava
(leading to another life) of the present actual life. This bhava
produces the jati and jaramara@na of the next life [Footnote ref l].
It is interesting to note that these twelve links in the chain
extending in three sections over three lives are all but the
manifestations of sorrow to the bringing in of which they naturally
determine one another. Thus _Abhidhammatthasa@ngaha_
says "each of these twelve terms is a factor. For the composite
term 'sorrow,' etc.
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