Puggala-Paññatti
Dessignation of Human Types
Division of human Types by Four
§ 22
Translated from the Pali by Bimala Charan Law, M.A., B.L.
© The Pali Text Society
22. What sort of person is one estimating by and satisfied with the outward form?
Here a person having observed the height, the compass, the shape, and the finish of a material object, finds satisfaction in it. Such a person is one estimating, etc.
What sort of person is one estimating by and satisfied with other's words?
Here a person engenders faith on the basis of the praise, the adulation, the admiration, the encomiums of others, treating them as a standard of judgment. Such a person is one estimating by and esteeming other's words.
What sort of person is one estimating by and esteeming outward austerity?
Here a person having noticed the austere nature of the garments, or of begging bowls, or of beds and sheets, or [74] having observed manifold austerities, finds satisfaction in them, taking these austerities as a standard of judgment. Such a person is one estimating by and esteeming outward austerity.
What sort of person is one estimating by and esteeming that which is right?[1]
Here a person having noticed the practice of morality, or of meditation, or of insight, finds satisfaction therein, taking these practices as a standard of judgment. Such a person is one estimating by and esteeming that which is right.[2]
[1] Dhamma.
