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correspond to the four yonis of Buddhist literature (see, for instance: Milindapañha in I.B. Horner, 1963: I, 177–179), with this difference that the fourth class is called opapātika in Pali, (a)upapāduka in Sanskrit texts. See on the classifications of living beings: S.Ch. Banerji (1972): 14–17, (1991): 73–77; J.L. Bhaduri, K.K. Tiwari, Biswamoy Biswas (1971): 425–434; F. Edgerton's Buddhist hybrid Sanskrit dictionary (s.vv. upapāduka and aupapāduka); the Pali dictionaries (s.v. opapātika and yoni); E. Frauwallner (1956): 267; W. Halbfass (1980): 292–295, (1991): 317–320; E. Hultzsch (1919): 224–226; R.F.G. Müller (1935); H.S. Rao (1957); P. Rolland (1972): 130–131; A. Roṣu (1978): 181–182; B. Seal in B.K. Sarkar (1974): I, 318–328; B. Seal (1985): 177–201; A.M. Shastri (1969): 292–293; B.K. Smith (1991); S. Sundara Rajan (1988); Vishnu-Mittre (1970); Wilson's translation of the Viṣṇupurāṇa 31, n.5; E. Windisch (1908): 191–192; H.Zimmer (1879): 74–77. See for the Jaina terminology: C. Caillat (1965): 298; P.S. Jaini (1980): 222–224; H.S. Rao (1957): 258–259, 279; B. Seal (1985); W. Schubring (1962): 139–142; S. Stevenson (1970): 99–101. See also Bhāgavatapurāṇa 3.10 (Sanyal's translation I, 173–174). 82 The embryo, as an assemblage of various parts, is compared to a kūṭāgāra and a chariot (3.14). See Cakra on different interpretations of kūṭāgāra. The cire-perdue method of casting images is referred to at 3.16; beeswax moulds are called madhūcchiṣṭavigraha.