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make a certain species of tree have such and such leaves with such shape
and colour, etc., what particular elements make a certain species of tree
have flowers of a particular colour or of a particular smell, such as having
a good smell or a bad smell, etc. He knows what particular elements make
a certain species of tree have fruit of such and such shape, size, smell, and
taste such as sweet, sour, hot or astringent. He knows what particular
elements make a certain species of tree have thorns of such and such
nature, such as sharp, blunt, straight, curved, red, black, white, brown, etc.
He has knowledge of non-living things and their intrinsic nature such as
these which are the province of the Buddha only, and are beyond the
capabilities of Paccekabuddhas and disciples.
5. Knowledge of the different inclinations of beings (
nānādhimuttika-
ñāṇa
).
6. Knowledge of the maturity and immaturity of the faculties in beings
(
indriya-paropariyattha-ñāṇa
).
7. Knowledge concerning the defiling factors, and the purifying factors
with regard to the absorptions (
jhāna
), deliverances, concentrations,
attainments and knowledge of rising from absorption (
jhāna-vimokkha-
samādhi-samāpatti-ñāṇa
).
8. Knowledge in remembering former existences (
pubbe-nivāsānussati-
ñāṇa
).
9. Knowledge in perceiving with the divine eye how beings pass away and
are reborn according to their actions (
cutūpapāta-ñāṇa
or
dibba-
cakkhu-ñāṇa
).
10. Knowledge of the Arahat path (
Arahatta-magga
) through extinction of
moral taints (
āsavakkhaya-ñāṇa
).
1. First, the Buddha surveys the world with the first of the ten knowledges to see
the beings who could possibly gain Awakening by examining whether there are
the gross types of wrong view in them that render it impossible to gain the
Arahat path (
Arahatta-magga
).
2. Next, he examines, by means of the second knowledge, the type of rebirth to
see if they were born only with two good root causes (
dvi-hetu
) or with no root
causes (
ahetu
), in which cases, the subject cannot gain Awakening in the present
existence, being born with deficient merit.