a ”noble learner”, a disciple in higher training, i.e. one who pursues the 3 kinds of training (sikkha^, q.v.), is one of those 7 kinds of noble disciples who have reached one of the 4 supermundane paths or the 3 lower fruitions (s. ariya-puggala), while the one possessed of the 4th fruition, or Arahatta-phala, is called ”one beyond training” (asekha, lit.”no more learner”). The worldling (puthujjana, q.v.) is called ”neither a noble learner, nor perfected in learning” (n”eva-sekha-na^sekha). Cf. Pug. 23-25.