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B-The description of the treading over the trans-mundane path (lokottara-marga-gamanam) contains(i) a detailed elucidation of the contemplation on the nature of the four Aryan truths as the main factor leading to the duḥkha-vimukti and thereby sevenfold mental orientation already enumerated (supra A ii);
(ii) analysis and arrangement of the elucidation of the four noble truths in the following fourfold way:
(a) the Duḥkha Arya Satya analysed in terms of anityatva (mutability), suffering (duḥkha), non-egoisty, (anātmākāreņa) and śünyākāra (non-intrinsicness of empirical existents,
etc.);
(b) the Samudaya Arya Satya analysed in the fourfold way of:
(i) hetu (cause),
(ii) samudaya (origin),
(iii) prabhava (birth), and
(iv) pratyaya (factor; knowledge);
(c) the Nirodha Arya Satya analysed in three
ways:
(i) nirodha (cessation),
(ii) santa (quintescent),
(iii) pranīta (exalted) and
(iv) niḥsarana (extinction, elimination); and
(d) the Marga Arya Satya analysed in the following way :
(i) marga (the way to the cessation of suffering),
