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The Exposition Section
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Therein, the Guide has been proclaimed in brief.
The Abridgement of the Modes
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And the command of the Blessed One - the Teaching guide for practitioners.
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What is the investigation of the discourse - the guide is declared as Investigation.
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The examination of what is fitting and unfitting - the guide is declared as Fitness.
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Thus up to all phenomena - this guide is Proximate Cause.
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All become stated - that guide is named Characteristic.
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The connection of what precedes and follows - this guide is the Fourfold Array.
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It turns to the opposite - that guide is named Conversion.
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In what is common and uncommon, it should be understood as Classification.
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It turns to the opposite - the guide is named Reversal.
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Whoever knows, skilled in the discourses, that is the mode called synonym.
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That manner should be understood, the mode called description.
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Whoever descends by these, that is the mode called descent.
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The investigation of pure and impure, that mode is called correction.
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They should be assigned by that, this is the mode called determination.
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Having drawn out the cause, this is the mode called requisite.
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They should be attributed, this is the mode called attribution.
The Abridgement of Method
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Having connected with the truths, this method is the Nandiyāvaṭṭa.
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Factual, true, unerring, they call that method the Tipukkhala.
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Those skilled in method call this method the Lion's Play.
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One examines with the mind - that indeed they call the Direction-Viewing.
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All the wholesome and unwholesome - this method is named the Goad.
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Having summarised with the Goad, one should explain the discourse by the three methods.
The Twelve Terms
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Mode as the sixth expression - this much is all the phrasing.
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By these six terms, the meaning and function are described.
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By nine terms, the meaning of the Blessed One's word is connected.
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Having combined both, thirty-three - this much is the Netti.
The Exposition Section.