The Doctrine of the Jainas, Described after the Old Sources c7.s5.5

c7.s5.5

Aṇuogadārā(im). Investigations (aṇuoga) into the range of knowledge in general and of Jain dogmatics in particular, starting from four different points of entrance (dāra). Suya as the object of teaching (closely related to the appendix of the Nandi). This leads on to the āvassaya-suyakkhandha. The author's purpose to describe all six of the āvassayas (§ 151) has, however, been materialized only in the first one, the sāmāiya. Its 4 aṇuoga-dārā (in which the sāmāiya plays no rôle whatever) are: approach from without (uvakkama, 85b), forming a scheme (nikkheva, 250a), penetration (aṇugama, 268a), the modes of expression (naya, 264a).