Patisambhidā: 'analytical knowledge' or 'discrimination', is of 4 kinds: analytical knowledge of the true meaning attha-patisambhidā of the law dhamma-patisambhidā, of language nirutti-patisambhidā of ready wit patibhāna-patisambhidā. As an alternative rendering of the fourth term patibhāna Bhikkhu Ñānamoli proposes: perspicuity in expression and knowledge. 3 'The knowledge of the language concerning those things' means: the language corresponding to reality, and the unfailing mode of expression concerning the true meaning and the law.
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