Designation of Human Types

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1.3. Grouping of Human Types by Three.

The despairing, the hopeful, one above aspiration.

Three men who are like unto the sick.

The eye-witness, the person who has won vision, he who is emancipated by faith.

The foul-mouthed, the flower-speaker, the honey-tongued.

A cancer-minded man, a lightning-minded man, a thunder-minded man.

The blind, the one-eyed, the two-eyed.

A man of inverted intellect, a man of folded intellect, a man of wide intellect.

A man not dispassionate as to sensual pleasures, as also to the states of rebirth; a man dispassionate as to sensual pleasures, but not so as to the states of rebirth; a man dispassionate as to both.PTS vp Pali 5

A man comparable to a mark upon stone, another to a mark upon earth, another to a mark of water.

Three men comparable to hempen cloth.

Three men comparable to Benares cloth.

The fathomable, one difficult to fathom, the unfathomable.

A man not worthy to be served, to be devotedly served, to be worshipped. A man worthy to be served, to be devotedly served, to be worshipped. A man worthy to be served with regard and esteem, to be devotedly served, to be worshipped.

A man who should be despised, not worthy to be served, to be devoted to, to be worshipped. A man who should be treated with indifference, not worthy to be served, to be devotedly served, to be worshipped. A man deserving of service, of devotion, of worship.

A man who fulfils the moral laws, but incompletely practises meditation and the way of insight. A man who fulfils the moral laws, completes the practice of meditation, but incompletely practises the way of insight. A man who fulfils the moral laws, completes the practice of meditation, but completely practises the way of insight.

Three teachers.

And again three teachers.

Designation of Human Types, a translation of the Puggalapaññatti by Bimala Charan Law.

Published by the Pali Text Society in 1924. Reprinted 1969, 1979, 1992, 2006.

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