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Lesson 3.10.13.1 Tikapaṭṭhāna – Pucchavāro, Part One – Determining Questions
To understand the methodical examination of the complete order of the Paṭṭhānapāḷi, the ‘chapter on questions’ (pucchavāro) provides a concise indication on the ‘permutation method’, which is applied when analysing all twenty-four conditions in systematic order. A set of seven logical questions is arranged and employed to enquire what phenomenon could arise based on which condition. Additionally, all possible combinations of the three constituents of the first tika, the kusala tika (kusala, akusala and abyākata), are organized into systematically arranged questions thus amounting to forty-nine. In this way, it is substantiated that no possibility remains missing.