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And it is both darkness and that, and because it removes that, and it is both great and that eminence, the mountain, and it is both great and that eminence, the rise. He has abundance, and glory's garland, He possesses these, He has fortune, he has glory, like the sun, He has fortune, glory, desire, and striving, such is the Teacher's nature. This is a composite expression, A figure of speech. Another meaning clings here, Thus it is a figure of speech. "Composite expression with distinct words," and so on, Should be understood in this way. 290. Like autumn's clear radiance, With waning well-controlled; Awakening the lotus pond, The wise one delights the people. Composite expression with distinct words. 290. "Like autumn," and so on. He has nectar, thus he is wise, the moon. He has excellent wisdom, the form of all-knowing knowledge, thus he is wise, the perfectly enlightened one. Autumn-born, in the autumn season, clear, radiant, whose beauty is such, the moon. He gives the essence of liberation to others, thus he is essential, radiant, or like a myrobalan in the hand, his radiance is the complete understanding of what should be known, the perfectly enlightened one. Brought together well, gradually, thus brought, the waning, the dark fortnight, by whom, the moon. Brought equally to peace, the waning, the decline, made by the enemies of defilements, because he has attained the cessation of decay, by whom, the perfectly enlightened one. The lotus pond, the lotus, the rays, the awakening, the blossoming, of whom, the moon. He makes joy, delight, in the earth, thus the lotus pond, the awakening, the understanding of the four noble truths, of whom, the perfectly enlightened one, delights the people, the multitude of people. This is a composite expression with distinct words, because of the distinctness of the words, according to the method stated. 290. "Essence," and so on. Autumn-born, in the autumn season, or giving the essence of liberation to the trainable, clear radiance, pure beauty, or having a beauty of such meaning because of being endowed with a pure garland of light, or autumn's clear radiance, pure beauty born in the autumn season, or giving the essence of liberation to the trainable, pure beauty, or essential myrobalan radiance, having a complete understanding of what should be known, like a myrobalan in the hand, giving the essence of liberation. Waning well-controlled, the dark fortnight well and gradually brought. The moon, with its full orb, or the extinction of defilements, called "decline," brought about by equanimity and peace. The awakening of the lotus pond, endowed with the blossoming of lotuses, or endowed with the awakening to the Four Noble Truths, generating joy for beings dwelling on the earth. Sudhī, the moon named for its possession of ambrosia, or the Fully Enlightened One, named for his beautiful wisdom. He pleases the multitude of beings. This is a split-word pun, where the meaning is derived by splitting words in both aspects. Born in autumn, the autumn moon. He gives essence, therefore he is Sārada, the Blessed One. "Sārada" is an adjective of the word "brightness." Whose brightness is stainless and pure, or in what head is there brightness? Whose brightness is stainless, the Teacher, or whose brightness, the moon or the Blessed One, is autumnal and stainless? Whose realization and awakening is like the brightness of autumn, the Blessed One? By whom decline, the loss of phases, is rightly brought about, or by whom decline, the destruction of the enemy of defilements, is brought to equanimity and peace? The mine of lotuses, or whose awakening is the blossoming of those lotuses? He makes joy, therefore he is Mudākara. He makes joy on the earth, or whose awakening is the awakening to the Four Noble Truths? The moon has ambrosia, or the Fully Enlightened One has beautiful wisdom. 291. Whose self is well composed, disciplined, Who crushes the pride of serpents, May the Well-Gone One clearly protect, That Guide of beings. A pun with words both split and unsplit. 291. "Samāhite" etc. Whose self is well and rightly established in discipline, whose discipline is the restraint of the senses everywhere without obstruction, he is the Garuda. Whose taming is through the activity of a secluded body and mind, he is the Fully Enlightened One. Thus, an unsplit word. He crushes the pride of the leaders of serpents, therefore he is Ahīnamadamaddano, the Garuda. He crushes the pride of even the best of noble beings, such as the Great Brahmā, He subdues the pride of snakes, therefore he is the subduer of the pride of snakes, the Perfectly Enlightened One. Beautiful is his going, his journey, having split the ocean, because of his ability to rise up even before the water meets, he is Garuḷa. Beautiful is his going, because of his movement that overcomes snakes, he is the Well-gone One, the Perfectly Enlightened One. Undivided word. He is the leader of birds, Garuḷa. He gives poison, therefore he gives poison, may he protect the world of snakes with his hand, by not harming, he guides, he trains those who are to be trained, he is the Guide, the Perfectly Enlightened One. May he protect the entire world of beings with his hand, clearly, without concealment. This is a play on words with divided and undivided words and sentences, because of the mixture of both types of words in the manner described. 291. "Samāhite" etc. Disciplined in concentration, endowed with the proper movement of the body in its sphere, or endowed with the proper restraint of the mind, the subduer of the pride of snakes, the subduer of the pride of nāga kings, or the subduer of the pride of even the best, such as Bakabrahma, the Well-gone One, because he is able to split the ocean water in two with the force of his wings, and having gone to the nāga abode in that water as if it were undivided, and having seized the nāgas, he is skilled in going, or his going is beautiful in many ways, the Guide, the leader of birds, that Garuḷa king, may he protect the world of snakes with his hand, which gives poison, which causes terror because of its terrible poison, by not harming. Or, the Guide, training those who are to be trained, that Perfectly Enlightened One, may he protect the entire world of beings by making it clear and wise, by removing harm and bringing benefit. In both aspects, because it is endowed with divided words such as "the subduer of the pride of snakes" and undivided words such as "disciplined in concentration," this is a play on words with divided and undivided words and sentences. And, the discipline of self, and the Garuḷa or the Tathāgata whose self is disciplined, and the leader who is not inferior, and the pride of the nāga kings who are not inferior, and others who are inferior, the best who are not inferior, and their pride, and he subdues that, and the leader of birds, And the statement, "he trains those to be trained." In the second instance, "clearly" is an adverb. 292. Actions conflicting, non-conflicting, and indistinct, and one restricted; A statement rejecting restriction, non-conflicting, and conflicting too. 293. Appropriateness-enhancing and so on, pun with word-origin and so on; Their nature will become clear, in these very examples. 292-3. To show other kinds of puns, he says, "conflicting" and so on. Conflicting, non-conflicting, and another indistinct, those same actions, the deeds of which, those three puns. Restricted, a determination, in which there is, restricted, another pun too. Rejection of restriction, a statement, the expression of which, such a one too. There is no conflict in it, non-conflicting, that one too. Conflict, incongruity, exists here, conflicting, that one too. Enhancing appropriateness, appropriateness-enhancing, that beginning of another figure of speech's range of puns, that pun from word-origin and so on too. Thus, there are other kinds of puns. Their, of the aforementioned, in the examples, in the uses themselves, nature, characteristic, definition, will become clear. 292-3. To indicate unspoken kinds of puns, he points out, "conflicting" and so on. Conflicting, non-conflicting, indistinct actions, also three puns combined with conflicting, non-conflicting, and indistinct actions of both meanings, and another restricted pun connected with determination, and a statement rejecting restriction, a pun expressing the prohibition of determination, and a non-conflicting pun, a pun non-conflicting in both meanings, and a conflicting pun, a pun conflicting in both meanings, and a pun from word-origin and so on, born from a word or born from a sentence, an appropriateness-enhancing pun and so on, the nature, the form, or the definition of these puns will become clear in the examples themselves, in the examples called illustrations, because the definition is understood from the illustrated example, I will not speak separately, is the intention. And conflicting, and non-conflicting, and indistinct, and the same action, the deed of which, s Because it has the meaning of "with parts," and because it has a rule, a determination, and because it has the negation, the prohibition of the rule, and because that is the expression, the designation of which the word with parts is, and because it has no contradiction, and because it nourishes propriety, and because that is the beginning, such as simile with parts, etc., and because it is born from a word, and because that is the beginning of the sentence, thus is the analysis. Silesa of Contradictory Actions 294. He turns the world to his own will, Whose form is entirely lovely; The enemy of Mara is defeated, The King of Dhamma triumphs. 294. Then, in order, he says, "Savase," etc.