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³ N.S., iii. 2. 33 ; N.B., iii. 2. 25-30 ; N.V., iii. 2. 25-26. Among the causes of recollection are mentioned: (1) praṇidhāna, or attention ; (2) nibandha, or association ; (3) abhyāsa, or repetition ; (4) liṅga, or sign ; (5) lakṣaṇa, or descriptive sign ; (6) sādṛśya, or similarity ; (7) parigraha, or ownership ; (8) āśrayāśṛtasaṃ bandha, or the relation of correlatives ; (9) ānantarya, or immediate sequence ; (10) viyoga, or separation ; (11) ekakārya, or identity of function ; (12) virodha, or enmity ; (13) atiśaya, or superiority ; (14) prāpti, or acquisition ; (15) vyavadhāna, or intervention ; (16) sukhaduḥkha, or pleasure-pain ; (17) icchādveṣa, or desire and aversion ; (18) bhaya, or fear ; (19) arthitva, or need ; (20) kriyā, or action ; (21) rāga, or affection ; (22) dharma, or merit ; (23) adharma, or demerit. These, according to Vātsyāyana, are only suggestive and by no means exhaustive. Nidarśanaṃ cedaṃ smṛtihetūnāṃ na parisaṃkhyānam iti (N.B., iii. 2. 41). All the causes of the association and recall of ideas can be brought under these heads.