Paṭisambhidā
Paṭisambhidā,(f.) [paṭi+saṁ+bhid; the BSk.pratisaṁvid is a new formation resting on confusion between bhid & vid,favoured by use & meaning of latter root in P.paṭisaṁvidita.In BSk.we find pratisaṁvid in same application as in P.,viz.as fourfold artha° dharma° nirukti° pratibhāna° (?).MVastu III,321] lit.“resolving continuous breaking up,” i.e.analysis,analytic insight,discriminating knowledge.See full discussion & expln of term at Kvu trsln 377--382.Always referred to as “the four branches of logical analysis” (catasso or catupaṭisambhidā),viz.attha° analysis of meanings “in extension”; dhamma° of reasons,conditions,or causal relations; nirutti° of [meanings “in intension” as given in] definitions paṭibhāna° or intellect to which things knowable by the foregoing processes are presented (after Kvu trsln).In detail at A.II,160; III,113.120; Ps.I,88,119; II,150,157,185,193; Vbh.293--305; VbhA.386 sq.(cp.Vism.440 sq.),391 sq.-- See further A.I,22; IV,31; Nd2 386 under paṭibhānavant; Ps.I,84.132,134; II,32,56,116,189; Miln.22 (attha-dh°nirutti-paṭibhāna-pāramippatta),359; VvA.2; DhA.IV,70 (catūsu p-° āsu cheka).p°-patta one who has attained mastership in analysis A.I,24; III,120; Ps.II,202.-- Often included in the attainment of Arahant‹-› ship,in formula “saha paṭisambhidāhi arahattaṁ pāpunāti,” viz.Miln.18; DhA.II,58,78,93.(Page 400)