 Scholars have noted inconsistencies in the list, and regard it to be a later synthesis of several older lists.The first four links may be a mockery of the Vedic-Brahmanic cosmogeny, as described in the "Hymn of Creation" of Veda X, 129 and the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad.These were integrated with a branched list which describe the conditioning of mental processes, akin to the five skandhas.