[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Āgama sūtras of the mainstream schools](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama) › [Arthaviniścayasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.arthaviniscayasutra) › [དོན་རྣམ་པར་ངེས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྣམ་གྲངས](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.arthaviniscayasutra*bo) › [Distinctly Ascertaining the Meanings](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.arthaviniscayasutra*bo~en-84000) › intro.6 # དན་རྣམ་པར་ངས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་ཆས་ཀྱ་རྣམ་གྲངས intro.6 Distinctly Ascertaining the Meanings intro.6 - **Language:** English ### [intro.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.arthaviniscayasutra*bo~en-84000.intro.6) Vīryaśrīdatta (fl. eighth century ce), the Nālandā master who commented on this sūtra, explains the expression distinctly ascertaining the meanings as a synonym of analyzing the dharmas, or classifying entities, so as to see directly both their unique traits and their shared features. This analysis constitutes a path to the realization that everything produced by assemblages of causes and conditions is impermanent, that everything leading to mental defilement is suffering, and that nothing whatsoever is or has a permanent and independent self‍. - [Previous: intro.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.arthaviniscayasutra*bo~en-84000.intro.5) - [Next: intro.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.arthaviniscayasutra*bo~en-84000.intro.7) - [Up: intro](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.arthaviniscayasutra*bo~en-84000.intro) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.arthaviniscayasutra*bo~en-84000.intro.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.arthaviniscayasutra*bo~en-84000.intro.6) · Pramāṇa