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Chapter 14 Usuyāra. datthūņa (4/445) is found in a verse which is part of the introduction
Chapter 18: Samjaya soūņa (18/568) is found in a verse summarizing 11-17. Chapter 20: Mahāniyamtha kāūņa (7/710) is found in a verse which is part of the introduction; kāūnal4 and abhivamdiūņa (59/762) in a verse summarizing the preceding text. On the metre of the latter verse, a patchwork of āryā (a and c) and śloka Pādas (b and d), and its status as a conclusion, see ALSDORF (1966: 159 and note 2). .
Chapter 21: Samuddapāla. Verse 9/772: tam pāsiūņa samvegam samuddapālo imam bavi introduces what Samuddapāla is going to say. In the very last verse, 24/787: duviham khaveūņa ya punnapāvam ... , the story is summed up.
Chapter 22: Rahanemi soūņa (18/805): soūņa tassa vayanam ... cimtei. soūna (28/815): soūna ... (29/816) ... rāīmāi vicimtei. datthūna (39/826)15: datthūņa ... (40/827)... tayam vade.
$ 3. Absolutives in "frames": the other chapters (6 instances)
The following six instances are found in the frames in the so-called doctrinal and disciplinary chapters.
14 The phrase, kāūņa ya payāhiņam, found in 20.7/710 and 59/762, is also found in Avassaya-Nijjutti 426:
so vinaena uvagao kāūņa payāhiņam ca tikkhutto
vamdai abbhitthunamto imāhi mahurāhi vaggūhim. 15 For the first hemistich the following variant reading has been noted: rahanemi tam tu
pāsittā bhaggajoyaparāyanam.
