[716] What is that form which is (the faculty of) vitality? The persistence of these corporeal states, their subsistence, their going on, their being kept going on, their progress, continuance, preservation, life, life as facultythis is that form which is (the faculty of) vitality. [717] What is that form which is not (the faculty of) vitality? Answer as in § 713a. [Intimation (viññatti).] [718] What is that form which is bodily intimation? Answer as in § 636. [719] What is that form which is not bodily intimation ? The sphere of vision . . . and bodily nutriment—this is that form which is bodily intimation. [720] What is that form which is vocal intimation? Answer as in § 637. [721] What is that form which is not vocal intimation? The sphere of vision. ... and bodily nutriment-this is that form which is not, etc.1 [Space and fluid.] [722] What is that form which is the element of space? That which is space and belongs to space, is sky, belongs to sky, is vacuum, belongs to vacuum, and is not in contact with the four Great Phenomena-this is that form which is the element of space. 1 Again, in these two negative categories, $ 596 is presumably followed with corresponding omissions and insertion. See p. 209, note 1. 2 Cf. with §§ 638, 652. [723] What is that form which is not the element of space? Answer as § 721. [72] What is that form which is the element of fluidity? That which is fluid and belongs to fluid, that which is viscid and belongs to viscid; the cohesiveness of form-this is that form which is the element of fluidity. [725] What is that form which is not the element of fluidity? Answer as in § 721. [Modes of form.] [726] What is that form which is lightness of form? That lightness of form which is its capacity for changing easily, its freedom from sluggishness and inertia-this is that form which is lightness of form. [727] What is that form which is not lightness of form? The sphere of vision . . . and bodily nutriment-this is that form which is not lightness of form. [728-731] Questions on the other two modes of form 'plasticity' and 'wieldiness' are answered by the descrip tions given in §§ 610, 641. The corresponding contradictory terms are described in the same terms as in § 727, riz.: as in § 596, with the omissions and insertion as indicated on p. 216, n. 5. [Evolution of form.] [732] What is that form which is the integration of form? That which is accumulation of form is the integration of form-this is that form which is, etc. [733] What is that form which is not the integration of form? The sphere of vision . . . and bodily nutriment-this is that form which is not, etc. [784-787] Questions on the subsistence,' 'decay,' and 'impermanence' of form and their contradictories are ansu ered analogously with those in the group on Modes of form,' the three positires being described as in §§ 642-645. [Nutrition.] [740] What is that form which is bodily nutriment ? This is answered as in § 646. [741] What is that form which is not bodily nutriment? The sphere of vision . . . and the impermanence of form-this is that form which is not bodily nutriment. Such are the Categories of Form under Dual Aspects. [End of] the Exposition of the Pairs. [CHAPTER III. Categories of Form under Triple Aspects. Exposition of the Triplets.]' [742-744] What is that form which is (i.) personal and derived! The spheres of the five senses. (ii.) external and derived! The sphere of visible form. . . and bodily nutriment.3 (iii.) external and not derived! The sphere of the tangible and the fluid element. [715-747] What is that form which is (i.) personal and the issue of grasping? The spheres of the five senses. To lighten the tedium to the reader of looking through this lengthy analysis of form considered as of the self or of the not-self taken in combination with the presence or absence of some other attribute, I have attempted a mode of grouping the triplets. I have also curtailed each answer of that constant feature, the concluding affirmation, termed in the Cy. (p. 55) the appana. C. preceding answers. Ajjhattikam. The word personal corresponds more strictly perhaps to puggalikam, but it is less cumbrous than of, or belonging to, the self,' while it is, at the same time, not an incorrect rendering. See p. 207, n. 1. This presumably still refers to § 596, which these two hrst answers may be held to exhaust between them, without the insertion of the sphere of the tangible,' which comes under (iii.). C. the preceding chapter. (ii) external and the issue of grasping? Femininity, masculinity, vitality, or whatever other form exists through karma having been wrought, whether it be in the spheres of visible form, odour, taste, or the tangible, in the spatial or the fluid element, in the integration or subsistence of form, or in bodily nutriment.1 (iii.) external and not the issue of grasping? The sphere of sound, bodily and vocal intimation, the lightness, plasticity, wieldiness, decay, and impermanence of form, or whatever other form exists which is not due to karma having been wrought, whether it be in the spheres of visible form,2 odour, taste, or the tangible, in the spatial or the fluid element, etc. [continue as in ii.]. [748-750] What is that form which is (i.) personal and both the issue of grasping and favourable to grasping? (ii.) external and both the issue of grasping and favourable to grasping? (iii.) external and not the issue of grasping but favourable to grasping? The answers are identical with those in the preceding triplet, taken in order.3 [751-753] What is that form which is (i.) personal and invisible? The spheres of the five senses. (ii.) external and visible? The sphere of visible form. (iii) external and invisible? The sphere of sound. . . 1 Cf. $$ 653, 654. 2 Saddayatanam, here repeated in the printed text, is omitted in K. 3 In 750 read kammassa before katatta. Fill up from § 596 as before. |