Namo tassa bhagavato arahato sammāsambuddhassa
1. Wise men can know the Dispensation
Glorious of the Glorious Man,
Whom the world and world-protectors
Ever honour and revere.
Twelve terms [do represent] the Thread,
[Whose] phrasing and [whose] meaning all
Should in both instances be known:
What is the phrasing? What the meaning?Sixteen conveyings [as] a guide
[And] five guide-lines the dispensation's
Search [and] eighteen root-terms, [too],
Mahā-Kaccāna demonstrated.Conveyings investigate the Thread's
Phrasing, three Guide-Lines the Thread's meaning;
Comprised in both these ways, a Thread
Is called “according to the Thread”.
[So since] the Teaching and the Taught
Should both be known, the order can
Now follow here in which to test
The Ninefold Thread-of-Argument.
The Comprehensive Section.