The sphere of vision . . . and bodily nutriment-this is that form which is not, etc. [734-737] Questions on the subsistence,' 'decay,' and 'impermanence' of form and their contradictories are answered analogously with those in the group on Modes of form,' the three positives 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.]1 [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. [745-747] What is that form which is (i.) personal and the issue of grasping? The spheres of the five senses. 1 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. Cf. preceding answers. 2 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 first 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 . . . and bodily nutriment 1 Cf. §§ 653, 654. 4 2 Saddayatan am, here repeated in the printed text, is omitted in K. 3 In $750 read kammassa before katatta. Fill up from § 596 as before. [754-756] What is that form which is (ii.) external and impingeing? The spheres of the five kinds of sense-objects. (iii.) external and non-impingeing ?2 Sex3 . . . and bodily nutriment. [757-759] What is that form which is (i.) personal and a faculty? The five faculties of sense. (ii.) external and a faculty? Sex and vitality. (iii.) external and not a faculty? The sphere of visible form . . . and bodily nutriment.* [760-762] What is that form which is (i.) personal and not one of the Great Phenomena ? The spheres of the five senses. (ii.) external and belonging to the Great Phenomena ? The sphere of the tangible and the fluid element.5 (iii.) external and not one of the Great Phenomena ? The spheres of the [other four kinds of sense-objects] and bodily nutriment. [763-765] What is that form which is (i.) personal and not intimation? The spheres of the five senses. (ii.) external and intimation? Bodily and vocal intimation.7 1 See p. 175, n. 2, and p. 183, n. 1. 2 For sappaṭigham read appaṭigham. 3 This term is substituted as a convenient abbreviation for the indriyas of both sexes. Cf. § 596. 4 Supply as before from § 596. 5 See § 647 et seq. 6 Actually ' of visible form 7 See §§ 636, 637. See note 1. (iii) external and not intimation? The spheres of the five kinds of sense-objects . . . and bodily nutriment. [766-768] What is that form which is (i.) personal and sprung from thought ?1 The spheres of the five senses. (ii.) external and sprung from thought? Bodily and vocal intimation, or whatever other form exists which is born of thought, caused by thought, etc. [continue as in § 667]. (iii.) external and not sprung from thought? Sex and vitality, the decay and impermanence of form, or whatever other form exists which is not born of thought, caused by thought, etc. [continue as in § 668]. [769-771] What is that form which is (i.) personal and does not come into being together with a thought! The spheres of the five senses. (ii.) external and comes into being together with a thought? Bodily and vocal intimation. (iii.) external and does not come into being, etc.? The spheres of the five kinds of sense-objects . . . and bodily nutriment. [772-774] What is that form which is (i.) personal and not consecutive to a thought? (iii.) external and not consecutive to a thought? The answers are identical with those in the preceding triplet, taken in order. [775-777] What is that form which is (i.) personal and gross ?2 The spheres of the five senses. 1 See § 667 et seq. 2 See § 675 et seq. |