A. Comprehensive Section

Ne 1

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Namo tassa bhagavato arahato sammāsambuddhassa

1. PTS vp Pli 1 PTS vp En 3Wise men can know the Dispensation
Glorious of the Glorious Man,
Whom the world and world-protectors
Ever honour and revere.

Twelve terms [do represent] the Thread,
[Whose] phrasing and [whose] meaning all
Should in both instances be known:
What is the phrasing? What the meaning?

Sixteen conveyings [as] a guide
[And] five guide-lines the dispensation's
Search [and] eighteen root-terms, [too],
Mahā-Kaccāna demonstrated.

Conveyings PTS vp En 4 investigate the Thread's
Phrasing, three Guide-Lines the Thread's meaning;
Comprised in both these ways, a Thread
Is called “according to the Thread”.

[So since] the Teaching and the Taught
Should both be known, the order can
Now follow here in which to test
The Ninefold Thread-of-Argument.

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