Two Brick Inscriptions from Nalanda (Brick B, with variants of Brick A) 17

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pya-bhavaḥ [|*] Bhava-pratyayā jātir=iti | Jātiḥ katamā | Yā tēshāṁ tēshāṁ satvānāṁ tasmiṁs=tasmiṁn(smin)=satva-nikāyē jātiḥ saṁ-jātir=avakrāntir=abhinirvṛittiḥ prādurbhāvaḥ skandha-pratilambhō dhātu-prati-

existence in the formless realm. 'Conditioned by existence is birth.' What is birth? That which is the birth, generation, descent, manifestation, appearance of those various beings in those various classes of beings, the acquisition of the aggregates, the acquisition of the elements,