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MA explains "fever" (parilāha) in the above passage as the fever of defilements and of their (kammic) results.

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§82 \S \S 14-19$ present the six kinds of direct knowledge (abhiñña). See Introduction, p. 37; for details, see Vsm XII and XIII.

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  1. The path of stream-entry abandons: contempt, a domineering attitude, envy, avarice, deceit, fraud.
  2. The path of non-returning abandons: ill will, anger, revenge, negligence.
  3. The path of arahantship abandons: covetousness and unrighteous greed, obstinacy, presumption, conceit, arrogance, vanity. MA maintains, by reference to an ancient exegetical source, that in this passage the path of the non-returner is being described. Therefore we must understand that those defilements to be fully abandoned by the path of arahantship have at this point only been abandoned in part, by way of their coarser manifestations.

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(2)-(11) are the ten courses of unwholesome and wholesome action (kammapatha) - see MN 9.4, 9.6;

(12)-(18) are the last seven factors of the eightfold path - wrong and right - the first factor being identical with (11);

(19)-(20) are sometimes added to the two eightfold paths - see MN 117.34-36;

(21)-(23) are the last three of the five hindrances - see MN 10.36 - the first two being identical with (9) and (10);

(24)-(33) are ten of the sixteen imperfections that defile the mind, mentioned in MN 7.3;

(37)-(43) are the seven bad qualities and the seven good qualities (saddhammā) mentioned in MN 53.11-17.

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Nibbāna, the second the path factors, the third the supreme fruit.

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death. Although the Pali seems to be saying that he was necessarily reborn in hell on account of some action other than the one he was seen performing, this should not be understood as an apodictic pronouncement but only as a statement of possibility. That is, while it may be true that he was reborn in hell because of the evil action he was seen performing, it is also possible that he was reborn there because of some other evil action he did earlier or later or because of wrong view.

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