Khuddaka Nikaya - Nettippakarana ( The Guide ) - Specification Section Part 3-10
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KACCANA THERA
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Mode 10
[The Ninefold Thread in the Mode of Conveying Synonyms]
285. [53] Herein, what is the Mode of Conveying Synonyms ?
[It is this:]
'Knower of Threads is he that knows
How many synonyms for one
Idea there are in the Thread: this Mode
Is that Conveying Synonyms' (§14).
286. According as the Blessed One demonstrates a single idea by
means of many synonyms. [For example:]
(Need and longing, expectan t relishing,
Enticement s on the several elements based,
Hankering whose being is roote d in
unknowing:
To al l tha t with it s root I put an end) (§137).
287. What is called 'need' (dsd) is any longing (dsimsand) for a
benefit about to be } 'need' arises in one thus 'Surely it will come'.
288. What is called longing' is any aspiration for a presently arisen
benefit, or else, on seeing someone better, 'longing' arises in one thus
'May I be like that'.
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289. Fostering the production of a benefit is what is called 'expectant
relishing', or one expects thus a dear relative, or one expects thus a
dear idea, or one expects [something] thus as unrepulsive.
290. 'The several elements' are the eye element, form element, and
eye-consciousness element; ear element, sound element, and ear-
consciousness element; nose element, odour element, and nose-
consciousness element; tongue element, flavour element, and
tongue-consciousness element; body element, tangible element, and
body-consciousness element; mind element, idea element, and mind-
consciousness element (cf. M. iii, 62).
291. 'Enticements': some believe in forms, some believe in sounds,
some believe in odours, some believe in flavours, some believe in
tangibles, some believe in ideas (cf. §568).
292. Herein, the twenty-four terms, namely the six kinds of grief
with the house-life as support (see M. iii, 218), the six kinds of joy
with the house-life as support (see M. iii, 217), the six kinds of grief
with renunciation as support (see M. iii, 218), the six kinds of joy
with renunciation as support (see M. iii, 217), being on the side
belonging to craving, are synonyms for craving.
But the six kinds of onlooking-equanimity with the house-life as
support (see M. iii, 219) are on the side belonging to views. That
same [onlooking-equanimity] in the mood of aspiration, as relishing
of the True Idea, love of the* True Idea, cleaving to the True Idea, is
synonymous with craving (cf. §506).
293. Cognizance, [54] mind, and consciousness,
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are synonyms for
cognizance (cf. S. ii, 94).
287/1 Bhavissassa: gen. of future participle.
288/1 Read patthand, seyyatararh va disva 'ediso . . .
293/1 Read mano vinndrvam as two words
294. Mind faculty, mind element, mind base, and act-of-being-
conscious, are synonyms for mind.
Understanding faculty, understanding power, training in the
higher understanding, understanding category, investigation-of-
ideas enlightenment factor, knowledge, right view, judgment, in-
sight, knowledge about an idea, knowledge about a meaning, know-
ledge about an inference, knowledge about exhaustion, knowledge
about non-arising, the I-shall-come-to-know-finally-the-as-yet-not-
finally-known faculty, the final-knowing faculty, the final-knower
faculty, vision (eye), science, discovery, breadth, wit, light, or also
any other such kind: these are synonyms for understanding (cf. §440).
295. All the five faculties, when disjoined from worlds, are under-
standing. Furthermore, faith has the sense of dominance, energy
the sense of instigation, mindfulness the sense of non-floating away
[from its object], concentration the sense of non-distraction, and
understanding the sense of act-of-understanding (cf. §§162-3).
296. And as it is said in the Recollection of the Enlightened One:
( That Blessed One is such since he is accomplished, fully enlightened,
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perfect in science and conduct, sublime, hnower ofivorlds, incomparable
leader of men to be tamed, teacher of gods and men, enlightened,
Blessed) (Pe 131; A. iii, 285), [and further] he who has come to
produce the Powers,
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reached the kinds of Intrepidity, arrived at the
Discriminations, left behind the four bonds, passed beyond going
the bad ways, extracted the barbs, cured the wounds,
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crushed the
thorns, remedied the obsessions, outstripped the tether, unknotted
the ties, passed beyond inclination, disrupted darkness; who is the
possessor of eyesight, who has surmounted the worldly ideas, who is
dissociated from favouring and opposing among wished-for and
unwished-for ideas, who has no recourse to amassing, who has passed
beyond the tether, who has done with battling, who is the most
eminent, who is the torch-bearer,
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light-maker, illuminator, gloom-
dispeller, conflict-abandoner, measureless in qualities, immense in
qualities, incalculable in qualities, maker of radiance, maker of
irradiance, illuminator of the True Ideal, enlightened, blessed.
296/1 Perhaps sambuddha ought to be rendered 'self-enlightened' in contrast
to anubuddha ('enlightened by another').
296/2 Read balanipphattigato.
296/3 l
Nirulhava?io—who has cured the wound' : nirillha not in this sense
in PED.
296/4 l
Okkadharo—torch-bearer': form not in PED, where see ukkd; C. and
Bb have vkkadharo, but Ba supports PT8.
These are synonyms for the Recollection of the Enlightened One.
297. And as it is said in the Recollection of the True Idea [55]
(The True Idea is well proclaimed by the Blessed One, to be seen for
oneself, not delayed (timeless), inviting inspection, onward-leading, and
directly experienceable by the wise) (A. iii, 285), (That is to say, the
disillusionment of vanity, the outguiding of thirst, the elimination of
reliance, the termination of the round, the void, the very hard to get, the
exhaustion of craving, fading, cessation, extinction) (Pe 131; cf. A. ii,
34), [and further:]
The Undetermined, the Infinite, and the Untainted,
The Truth, the Further Shore, the Subtle, very hard to see,
The Ageless, Everlasting, and Un-worn-away,
Making no showing,
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undiversifying, peace,
The Deathless, the Supreme, the Blissful, and the Safe,
Exhaustion of thirst, the Wonderful, the Marvellous,
The Unplagued, whose nature it is to be unplagued,
Extinction (see S. iv, 368-71)—this is what the Sublime one
taught—
The Unborn, and the Un-brought-to-being (Ud. 80), the
Hazard-Free,
The Unmade (Ud. 80), and the Sorrowless, the Sorrow-free,
The Unmenaced, whose nature it is to be unmenaced,
Extinction—this is what the Sublime One taught—
Profound, and very hard to see as well,
Surpassing too, and unsurpassed,
That is unlike, that has no like,
Foremost and best, as it is called.
Shield, shelter, without conflict,
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without blemish,
Spotless, immaculate, as it is called,
The Lamp (Isle), and Bliss, the Immense, the Standing-point,
Non-owning, non-diversifying called.
These are synonyms for the. Recollection of the True Idea.
297/1 'Anidassana—that makes no showing': the word appears at M. i, 329
(where spoken by the Buddha, not by Brahma—see Burmese Chattha -Sangiti
ed. of M.) and repeated at D. i, 223, and it is also a term in the 9th dyad of
the Abhidhamma Matika or 'Schedule' (Dhs. p. 3). Usually translated
'invisible'. See KhpA. trsln. Appx. I -y/bhu.
297/2 PTS Netti Index gives 'refuge' for sarana here, taking it as equivalent
to the 'sarana? at S. iv, 372. I t is easy to confuse sar-ana (subst. fm. ^/sar
'to flow') with sa-rana ('with conflict'), opposite of a-rarva (see M. iii, 235):
'Arano ti arajo nikkileso' (MA. v, 32).
298. And as it is said in the Recollection of the Community (The
Community of the Blessed One's hearers has progressed by the good way,
the Community of the Blessed One's hearers has progressed by the
straight way, the Community of the Blessed One's hearers has progressed
by the trice way, the Community of the Blessed One's hearers has pro-
gressed by the proper way, that is to say, the four pairs of men, the eight
types of mature persons. This Community of the Blessed One's
hearers is fit for gifts, fit for hospitality, fit for offerings, fit for
reverential salutation, as the incomparable field of merit for the world)
(A. iii, 286), [56] [and further] perfect in virtue, perfect in concen-
tration, perfect in deliverance, perfect in knowing and seeing of
deliverance; it is creatures' core (cf. M. iii, 80), creatures' fine-
essence, creatures' fine-extract, creatures' pillar, creatures' blossom
of fragrance,
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to be honoured by gods and human beings. These
are synonyms for the Recollection of the Community.
299. And just as it is said in the Recollection of Virtue ( Those kinds
of virtue that are untorn, unrent, unblotched, unmottled, noble, desired
by Noble Ones, liberating, commended by the wise, not misapprehended,
and conducive to concentration) (A. iii, 286), [and further] virtue as
an ornament for adorning the topmost limb,
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and virtue as a
treasure laid by in the sense of surmounting all defects, and virtue
as an archer's craft for hitting the bull's eye, and virtue as a rule in
the sense of non-transgression, and virtue as [wealth of] corn in the
sense of terminating poverty, and virtue as a looking-glass for the
purpose of surveying ideas [of quiet and insight], and virtue as a
[storied] palace in the sense of [a place for] surveying, and virtue
that by its having parallel occurrence with all the [four] planes,
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ends in the Deathless. These are synonyms for the Recollection of
Virtue.
300. And as it is said in the Recollection of Generosity (On an
298/1 'Surabhi-pasuna—blossom with fragrance': read as one compound.
JSurabhi (fragrance, scent) not in PED, see J a. vi, 236, Abhp. 146; pasuna
not in PED. NettiA: 'Surabhi-kusuman ti atthd' (p. 102). See Abhp. Tikd
ad Abhp. 16.
299/1 Read uttumangopasobhanatdya and resolve into uttamanga ('head') -f
upasobhinatdya. The note '(m.)' in PTS Netti Index ('uttamanga (m.)') has
mistaken the sandhi o (— a +u) for a masc. nom. sing, termination.
299/2 This means that i t is coextensive with the 3 planes of being (those of
sensual-desire, of form, and of formlessness), and also with the unincluded
(apariydpanna) fourth plane (not of being, either positive or negative), which
is dissociated from worlds and concerned with cessation (the deathless
extinction).
occasion on which a Noble Hearer lives in a house, freely generous,
open-handed, delighting in relinquishing, used to being asked, and
delighting in giving and sharing . . .) (A. iii, 287). These are
synonyms for the Kecollection of Generosity.
301. That is why the venerable Maha-Kaccana said:
'Knower of Threads is he that knows
How many synonyms for one
Idea there are in the Thread: this Mode
Is that Conveying Synonyms' (§14).
The Mode of Conveying Synonyms is ended.
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