Khuddaka Nikaya - Nettippakarana - Specification Section Part 1

Khuddaka Nikaya - Nettippakarana ( The Guide ) - Specification Section Part 1


ACCORDING TO
KACCANA THERA

TRANSLATED FROM THE PALI BY
BHIKKHU NANAMOLI
Pali Text Society
[B. SPECIFICATION SECTION
PART 1. INDICATIVE SUBSECTION]
2. Herein, what are the sixteen Modes of Conveying (§1, vse. 3) ?
[They are sixteen modes of the Ninefold Thread as conveying:]
1. a Teaching,
1
2. an Investigation,
3. a Construing,
4. Footings,
5. Characteristics,
6. a Fourfold Array,
7. a Conversion,
8. an Analysis,
9. a Eeversal,
10. Synonyms,
11. Descriptions,
12. Ways of Entry,
13. a Clearing Up,
14. Terms of Expression,
15. Requisites,
16. a Co-ordination (Pe 3).
[2] Here follows a paraphrasing-verse:
As Teaching, Investigation, Construing,
As Footings, and Characteristics,
Fourfold Array, and then Conversion,
Analysis, Reversal too, (1)
As Synonyms, and as Descriptions,
As Ways of Entry, Clearing Up,
Terms of Expression, Requisites,
And for sixteenth Co-ordination (cf. Pe 3). (2)
These Modes are the Sixteen Conveyings (cf. Pe 3);
[And] as to the significance [of each]
2/1 For renderings of these and remaining technical terms, see Intro,
(sect. 8).

A separate statement [follows on (§§5-20)]
With detailed method-analysis for each one
2
(3)
3. Herein, what are the five Guide-Lines (§1, vse. 3) ? [They are:]
1. the Conversion of Eelishing,
2. the Trefoil,
1
3. the Lions' Play;
4. the Plotting of Directions,
5. the Hook (Pe 3).
Here follows a paraphrasing-verse :
2
Conversion of Relishing comes first,
In second place the Trefoil follows,
3
The Lions' Play is the name they give
To the Third Guide-Line formula; (1)
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 (cf. Pe 4). (2)
4. Herein, what are the eighteen Root-Terms (§1, vse. 3) ? They
are the nine profitable Root-Terms and nine unprofitable Root-
Terms.
Herein, what are the nine unprofitable Root-Terms ? [They are:]
Craving,
Ignorance;
Greed,
2/2 NettiA says that this verse (the last 2 lines in the Pali) was not in all
MSS. (I t is not in the Pe.) That i t might be a later addition seems very
probable from its confusing use of the words attha and naya, which respectively
allude here neither to the 6 atthapada (opposed to the 6 byanjanapada—§§27-8)
nor to the 5 naya (§§21-5), but quite loosely to the individual significance
of the 16 Modes, themselves restricted to dealing with byanjana, not attha,
and to the detailed method of their separate exposition (§§5-20). Such
inconsistent use of prominent technical terms is unlike the rest of the work.
Here NettiA glosses naya-vibhatti with updyena vibhdgo (also vibhatti here
does not allude to the vibhatti-hdra). I t glosses the anomalous vitthdratayd
(metri causa for vitthdratdyal) with vitthdrena and rejects a reading of vitthdra-
nayd as bad.
8/1 See Intro, (sects. 7b and 8).
8/2 This must be the meaning of anuglti; not in PED, see CPD. NettiA
glosses with sangaha-gdtha (p. 19); see Index; also Pe p. 87.
3/3 The order is only that of enumeration. See ch. iii, and Pe ch. viii.

Hate,
Delusion;
Perception of Beauty,
Perception of Pleasure,
Perception of Permanence,
Perception of Self (cf. Pe 4).
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:]
Quiet,
Insight;
Non-greed,
Non-hate,
Non-delusion;
Perception of Ugliness,
Perception of Pain,
Perception of Impermanence,
Perception of Not-self (cf. Pe 4).
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. (1)
[3] The nine terms Quiet and then Insight
With the three Profitable Roots
And Mindfulness-Foundations four
1
Do constitute the faculties' plane. (2)
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 (cf. Pe 4). (3)
*
The Indicative Subsection.
4 / l The use of the term 'four foundations of mindfulness' (cattdro satipatthdnd)
to refer to the four objects of undistorted perception (vipalldsa-vatthuni) is
unusual. (Cf. Pe 185).