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The Synopsis Section
1.
Therein, what are the sixteen guides?
The Teaching, investigation, fitness, proximate cause, characteristic, fourfold array, conversion, classification, reversal, synonym, description, descent, correction, determination, requisite, and attribution - thus.
The Recitation Following That
Fourfold array and conversion, classification and reversal.
Determination, requisite, attribution as the sixteenth.
And of these there is, by way of detail, the classification of method.
2.
Therein, what are the five methods?
The Nandiyāvaṭṭa, the Tipukkhala, the Sīhavikkīḷita, the Disālocana, and the Aṅkusa - thus.
The Recitation Following That
The Sīhavikkīḷita by name, the third is the method-elucidator.
The fifth is named Aṅkusa, all five methods are known - thus.
3.
Therein, what are the eighteen root terms?
Nine terms are wholesome, nine terms are unwholesome.
Therein, what are the nine unwholesome terms? Craving, ignorance, greed, hate, delusion, perception of beauty, perception of pleasure, perception of permanence, perception of self - these are the nine unwholesome terms, where the entire unwholesome side goes into classification and coming together.
Therein, what are the nine wholesome terms? Serenity, insight, non-greed, non-hate, non-delusion, perception of foulness, perception of suffering, perception of impermanence, perception of non-self - these are the nine wholesome terms, where the entire wholesome side goes into classification and coming together.
Herein this is the summary
And the four illusions - the plane of defilements, nine terms.
The four establishments of mindfulness - the plane of faculties, nine terms.
These indeed are the root terms, they are eighteen terms.
The Synopsis Section.