Nettippakaranam According to Kaccana Thera

NettippakaraNaM seeks to control words as a functional text - through two types of ideas: extending to describe something further; and exercise the ideas further – preserving the language and keeping the concept intact.  In other words the Netti just rewords concepts in the discourses – through phrasing and meanings.  “So the re-wording of an intellectually known idea without due precautions in regard to this aspect may make a communication different from what was intended, and it can even mislead the would-be commentator or translator, himself by undermining in his mind the ideas that were intellectually clear to him.” NettippakaraNaM is a guide for commentators.

NettippakaraNaM is a treatise setting out methods for interpreting and explaining canonical texts, similar in content to the Petakopadesa and used by Buddhaghosa and other commentators. Investigative Tools – and use of the words in book is as follows:

Pali	English	Pali		English
VīmaMsā	Inquiry	Pariyesati		To search
Virūhanā	Development	Gavesitabba		Should be examined
Vibhatti	Analysis	Upaparikkhā		Scrutiny
Vibhajanā	Analyzing	Upaparikkhamāna		Scrutinizing
Vibhanga	Separate treatment	Upapattisādhana	Proof of representation
Vindati	To find	Uddesa	Indication/indicative
Vidita	Found	Ārambha	Investigation
Vicinati	To investigate	Ārambhati	To investigate
Pavicaya	Re-investigation	Āraddha	Investigated
Vicetabba	Should be investigated	Ājānāti	to gain final knowledge
Vādānuvāda	Deduction from an assertion	Sampaṭivedha	Penetrating
Yutti	Appropriate construing	PaTivedha	Penetration
Yujjati	To be construable	Samatta	Undertaken
Manasikaroti	Given attention	Aya	Way
Maññanā	Conceiving