APPENDIX II. On that which is predicted about Uncompounded Element (asankhata dhatu) in the Dhamma Sangani. Uncompounded Element is classed as the fourth and last species of the morally Indeterminate (a vya katam)—in other words, of that conduct or state of mind which is not productive of good or bad karma. But it alone, of those four, does not receive separate and systematic discussion, as is the case with the other three-Result, Kiriya, and Form. The following predicates are elicited incidentally in the course of Book III., which discusses what may be called Applied Ethics. Again, whereas the word Nirvana (nibbanam) is always substituted for asankhata dhatu in that Atthakatha which is appended as a supplement to the original text, the term 'uncompounded element' is not identified, in the Dhamma Sangani, with the topmost fruit' of the Paths, the arahattaphalam, which is one aspect of the state called Nirvana (ef. S. iv. 251, 252). The subject therefore seems to demand further inquiry. It is to facilitate this that the following results are appended, parallel more or less to the table on Form, pp. 168-171. Cf. note, p. 166. Incompounded element is 6 to be put away neither by insight nor by culture [1008] something the causes of which are to be put away neither by insight nor by culture that which makes neither for the piling up [1012]2 |