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					Javana,(nt.) 1.alacrity,readiness; impulse,shock Ps.I,80 sq.; Vism.22; DhsA.265 (cp.Dhs.trsl.pp.132,156); DA.I,194.Usually in cpd.javana-pañña (adj.) of alert intellection,of swift understanding,together with hāsa-pañña (hāsu° at M.III,25; J.IV,136) & puthu° tikkha° S.V,376,377; Nd2 235,3a.Also in cpds.°paññā Ps.II,185 sq.; °paññatā A.I,45; °paññattaṁ S.V,413.‹-› 2.The twelfth stage in the function (kicca) of an act of perception (or vīthicitta):the stage of full perception,or apperception.Vism.ch.xiv.(e.g.p.459); Abhdhs.pt.iii,§ 6 (kiccaṁ); Comp.pp.29,115,245.In this connection javana is taken in its equally fundamental sense of “going” (not “swiftness”),and the “going” is understood as intellectual movement.(Page 280)