Some people remember a past birth (jātismaraṇa), and its marks are given to establish that…

Some people remember a past birth (jātismaraṇa), and its marks are given to establish that former and later births exist. Its causes are a clear intellect and mind at the time of death, knowledge of scripture, strong religious thought, passing to the new birthplace by a straight course and a simple disposition. A person remembers his former life directly on hearing of or seeing things experienced then, on seeing similar things in dream or fear, by inference from likeness, and through the destruction or subsidence of the knowledge-obscuring karma.

Why it is kept for review: Jain doctrine of recollecting past births, introduced before the account of constitution; no Ayurvedic category fits.

मनुष्य अपने पूर्वभव सम्बन्धी विषयों को सा़ात् स्मरण करता है, उसे जातिस्मरण कहते हैं।