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--539 ] THE DOOR OF DISQUISITION, CALLED NIKKHEVA. 195
[Suttas 534-600: The door of Assignment] 534. Then what is nikkheva (assignment) ?! The nikkheva is stated to be threefold, viz.
(i) pertaining to general nomenclature (ohanipphanna); (ii) pertaining to particularized name (nämanipphanna); and (iii) pertaining to the utterance of a particular sutta (sutt ala
vaganipphanna). 535. Then what is (nikkheva ) pertaining to general nomenclature ?2 (The nikkheva) pertaining to general nomenclature is stated to be fourfold, viz.
(a) ajjhayaņa (chapter; concentration of mind); (b) ajjhiņa (inexhaustible); (c) da (acquisition);
(d) jhavaņā (attenuation; eradication). 536. Then what is ajjhayana ? Ajjhayana is stated to be fourfold, viz.
(1) ajjhayaņa as name; (2) ajihayana as arbitrary attribution; (3) ajihayana as substance-potential:
(4) ajjhayana as essence. 537. (Ajjhayana as) name and arbitrary attribution are as) were described previously. (Vide sutta No. 10-12).
538. Then what is ajjhayaņa as substance-potential? Ajjhayana as substance-potential is stated to be twofold, viz.
(a) with scriptural knowledge; and (b) without scriptural knowledge.
539. Then what is ajjhayana as substance-potential, with scriptural knowledge ? Ajjhayaņa as substance-potential, with scriptural knowledge, is concerned with a personi by whom the ajjhayana treatise has been studied, retained (in mind), controlled, measured, controlled perfectly...up to (vide sutta No. 14-15 [1], substitute ajjhayana for avassaya)... Similarly there are as many ajjha yanas as substance-potential, with scriptural knowledge, as there are persons without attention (or active thinking). Similar is the case according to the standpoint of)
1. Vide supra, sutta No. 75. 2. We have translated oha as general nomenclature. Oha stands for the general
title of a book in the scripture.
