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I bend in homage to the Blessed One, the Exalted, the perfectly Enlightened One.

The Six Designations—viz.:

1. The notion of the groups.
2. The notion of sense-organs and their objects.
3. The notion of the elements of cognition.
4. The notion of truth.
5. The notion of sense-organs.
6. The notion of human types.

1. In what ways is there a designation of groups?

So far as the five groups are concerned—viz.:

1. The group of material form,
2. the group of sensation,
3. the group of perception,
4. the group of confections,
5. the group of consciousness.

In these ways is there a designation of groups.

2. In what ways is there a designation of sense-organs and their objects?

So far as the twelve sense-organs and their objects are concerned—viz.: (a) the eye, (b) visible shape, (c) the ear, (d) sound, (e) the nose, (f) the smell, (g) the tongue, (h) the taste, (i) the body, (j) tangible things, (k) the mind, (l) ideas.

In these ways is there a designation of sense-organs and their objects.

3. In what ways is there a designation of the elements of cognition?

So far as the eighteen elements of cognition are concerned—viz.: (a) the eye, (b) visible shape, (c) visual cognition, (d) the ear, (e) sound, (f) auditory cognition, (g) the nose, (h) odour, (i) olfactory cognition, (j) the tongue, (k) taste, (l) gustatory cognition, (m) the organ of touch, (n) tangible things, (o) tactile cognition, (p) mind, (q) idea, (r) mental cognition.

In these ways is there a designation of the elements of cognition.

4. In what ways is there a designation of truths?

So far as the four truths are concerned—viz.: (a) the truth of suffering, (b) the truth of the genesis of suffering, (c) the truth of cessation of suffering, (d) the truth of the path leading to the cessation of suffering.

In these ways is there a designation of truths.

5. In what ways is there a designation of functions?

So far as the twenty-two functions (or faculties) are concerned—viz.:

1. the function of the eye,
2. the function of the ear,
3. the function of the nose,
4. the function of the tongue,
5. the function of the touch,
6. the function of the mind,
7. the function of life,
8. the function of womanhood,
9. the function of manhood,
10. the function of pleasure,
11. the function of pain,
12. the function of gladness,
13. the function of grief,
14. the function of neutral feeling,
15. the function of faith,
16. the function of energy,
17. the function of mindfulness,
18. the function of concentration,
19. the function of insight,
20. the function of will-to-know-what-is-unknown,
21. the function of gnosis,
22. the function of having-come-to-know-the-unknown.

In these ways is there a designation of functions (or faculties).

6. In what ways is there a designation of human types?

1. Grouping of Human Types by One.

1. One who is emancipated in season.
2. One who is emancipated out of season.
3. One of perturbable nature.
4. One of imperturbable nature
5. One liable to fall away.
6. One not liable to fall away.
7. One competent in will.
8. One competent in watchfulness.
9. An average man.
10. One become of the family of the Ariyas.
11. One restrained through fear.
12. One unrestrained through fear.
13. One capable of arriving.
14. One incapable of arriving.
15. One with determined destiny.
16. One with undetermined destiny.
17. The path-attainer.
18. One established in fruition.
19. The equal-headed.
20. The aeon-arrester.
21. The elect.
22. The non-elect.
23. The learner.
24. The non-learner (adept).
25. Neither a learner nor a non-learner.
26. One who has threefold lore.
27. The possessor of the six super-knowledges.
28. The perfectly Enlightened One.
29. The one Enlightened for himself.
30. One emancipated in both ways.
31. One emancipated by insight.
32. The eye-witness.
33. He who has won vision.
34. One emancipated by faith.
35. One conforming to the Norm.
36. One conforming by faith.
37. One undergoing re-births (not more than) seven times.
38. One transmigrating through a few families (less than seven times).
39. The single-seeded.
40. The once-returner.
41. The never-returner.
42. One who dies and attains Nirvāṇa before half the age he should have lived in a Brahma world expired.
43. The term-curtailing passer-away.
44. The automatic passer-away.
45. The passer-away after strenuous exertions.
46. The stream-ascending Akaṇiṭṭha traveller.
47. The stream-attainer walking in realisation of the fruition stage.
48. The once-returner walking in the realisation of the fruition stage.
49. The never-returner walking in the realisation of the fruition stage.
50. The Arahant walking in Arahantship.