[448] **Conceit and contempt, together with malicious speech:** relying on a dear object, they generate conceit (māna); relying on a dear object, they generate contempt (atimāna).
How, relying on a dear object, do they generate conceit? "We are gainers of agreeable forms, sounds, odours, tastes, and tangible objects" — thus, relying on a dear object, they generate conceit.
How, relying on a dear object, do they generate contempt? "We are gainers of agreeable forms, sounds, odours, tastes, and tangible objects, but these others are not gainers of agreeable forms, sounds, odours, tastes, and tangible objects" — thus, relying on a dear object, they generate contempt.
**Malicious speech (pesuñña):** here someone is of malicious speech: having heard something here, he reports it elsewhere for the division of these people … thus, intending division, he brings in malicious speech … Hence: **conceit and contempt, together with malicious speech.**
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.