1. Indicative Subsection

PTS vp En 52. Herein, what are the sixteen Modes of Conveying?

[They are sixteen modes of the Ninefold Thread as conveying:]

1. a Teaching,
2. an Investigation,
3. a Construing,
4. Footings,
5. Characteristics,
6. a Fourfold Array,
7. a Conversion,
8. an Analysis,
9. a Reversal,
10. Synonyms,
11. Descriptions,
12. Ways of Entry,
13. a Clearing Up,
14. Terms of Expression,
15. Requisites,
16. a Co-ordination.

PTS vp Pli 2 Here follows a paraphrasing-verse:

As Teaching, Investigation, Construing,
As Footings, and Characteristics,
Fourfold Array, and then Conversion,
Analysis, Reversal too,
As Synonyms, and as Descriptions,
As Ways of Entry, Clearing Up,
Terms of Expression, Requisites,
And for sixteenth Co-ordination.
These Modes are the Sixteen Conveyings
[And] as to the significance [of each]
A separate statement [follows]
With detailed method-analysis for each one.

PTS vp En 63. Herein, what are the five Guide-Lines? [They are:]

1. the Conversion of Relishing,
2. the Trefoil,
3. the Lions’ Play;
4. the Plotting of Directions,
5. the Hook.

Here follows a paraphrasing-verse:

Conversion of Relishing comes first,
In second place the Trefoil follows,
The Lions’ Play is the name they give
To the Third Guide-Line formula;
The fourth Guide-Line most rare they call
The Plotting of Directions, then
The Hook is what the fifth is termed:
That is how all five Guide-Lines go.

4. Herein, what are the eighteen Root-Terms? They are the nine profitable Root-Terms and nine unprofitable Root-Terms.

Herein, what are the nine unprofitable Root-Terms? [They are:]

1. Craving,
2. Ignorance;
3. Greed,
4. PTS vp En 7Hate,
5. Delusion;
6. Perception of Beauty,
7. Perception of Pleasure,
8. Perception of Permanence,
9. Perception of Self.

These are the nine unprofitable Root-Terms, wherein all that belongs to the unprofitable side is comprised and collated.

Herein, what are the nine profitable Root-Terms? [They are:]

1. Quiet,
2. Insight;
3. Non-greed,
4. Non-hate,
5. Non-delusion;
6. Perception of Ugliness,
7. Perception of Pain,
8. Perception of Impermanence,
9. Perception of Not-self.

These are the nine profitable Root-Terms, wherein all that belongs to the profitable side is comprised and collated.

Here is a mnemonic for it:

The nine terms Craving and Ignorance
And Greed, Hate and Delusion too
And with Perversions four besides
Do constitute defilement’s plane.
PTS vp Pli 3 The nine terms Quiet and then Insight
With the three Profitable Roots
And Mindfulness-Foundations four
Do constitute the faculties’ plane.
With nine terms on the side of profit
And nine terms on unprofit’s side
Construed, these Root-Terms [thus] do come
[In all] to number eighteen terms.

The Indicative Subsection.