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“Mendicants, there are these four speakers. What four?

“Cattārome, bhikkhave, vādī. Katame cattāro?

“Mendicants, there are these four speakers. “Cattārome, bhikkhave, vādī. What four? Katame cattāro?

There’s a speaker who runs out of meaningful things to say, but not of ways of phrasing things. There’s a speaker who runs out of ways of phrasing things, but not of meaningful things to say. There’s a speaker who runs out of both meaningful things to say, and ways of phrasing things. There’s a speaker who never runs out of meaningful things to say, or ways of phrasing things.

Atthi, bhikkhave, vādī atthato pariyādānaṁ gacchati, no byañjanato; atthi, bhikkhave, vādī byañjanato pariyādānaṁ gacchati, no atthato; atthi, bhikkhave, vādī atthato ca byañjanato ca pariyādānaṁ gacchati; atthi, bhikkhave, vādī nevatthato no byañjanato pariyādānaṁ gacchati.

There’s a speaker who runs out of meaningful things to say, but not of ways of phrasing things. Atthi, bhikkhave, vādī atthato pariyādānaṁ gacchati, no byañjanato; There’s a speaker who runs out of ways of phrasing things, but not of meaningful things to say. atthi, bhikkhave, vādī byañjanato pariyādānaṁ gacchati, no atthato; There’s a speaker who runs out of both meaningful things to say, and ways of phrasing things. atthi, bhikkhave, vādī atthato ca byañjanato ca pariyādānaṁ gacchati; There’s a speaker who never runs out of meaningful things to say, or ways of phrasing things. atthi, bhikkhave, vādī nevatthato no byañjanato pariyādānaṁ gacchati.

These are the four speakers. It is impossible, it cannot happen that someone accomplished in the four kinds of textual analysis will ever run out of meaningful things to say, or ways of phrasing things.”

Ime kho, bhikkhave, cattāro vādī. Aṭṭhānametaṁ, bhikkhave, anavakāso yaṁ catūhi paṭisambhidāhi samannāgato atthato vā byañjanato vā pariyādānaṁ gaccheyyā”ti. *samannāgato → samannāgato bhikkhu (bj, sya-all, km)

These are the four speakers. Ime kho, bhikkhave, cattāro vādī. It is impossible, it cannot happen that someone accomplished in the four kinds of textual analysis will ever run out of meaningful things to say, or ways of phrasing things.” Aṭṭhānametaṁ, bhikkhave, anavakāso yaṁ catūhi paṭisambhidāhi samannāgato atthato vā byañjanato vā pariyādānaṁ gaccheyyā”ti. *samannāgato → samannāgato bhikkhu (bj, sya-all, km)