[47] Could it be that, in dependence on a wholesome phenomenon (dhamma), a wholesome phenomenon might arise not by the root condition (hetu-paccaya), not by the object condition (ārammaṇa-paccaya)?
Just as in the positive method (anuloma) the one-rooted (ekamūlaka), two-rooted, three-rooted, and four-rooted sets of each single term, up to the twenty-three-rooted (tevīsatimūlaka), [were set forth], so too in the negative method (paccanīya) it should be elaborated in detail.
The triad (tika), that excellent Paṭṭhāna, and the supreme dyad (duka),
the dyad-triad (dukattika) and the triad-dyad (tikadduka),
the triad-triad (tikattika) and the dyad-dyad (dukadduka) —
six methods in the negative, exceedingly profound.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.