Dhamma-Sangani - THE DIVISION ENTITLED ELIMINATION - The Short Intermediate Set of Pairs

A BUDDHIST MANUAL
Psychological Ethics,
FROM THE PALI
OF THE
DHAMMA-SANGANI

Translated by CAROLINE A. F. RHYS DAVIDS, M.A.

[Chapter III.
The Short Intermediate Set of Pairs (culantara-
dukam).]
[1083] Which are the states that are conditioned ?^
The five skandhas, to wit, the skandhas of form, feeling,
perception, syntheses and intellect.
[1084] Which are the states that are unconditioned ?
'
And uncompounded element.'^
[1085] Which are the states that are compound ?^
Those states which are conditioned.
[1086] Which are the states that are uncompounded ?
That state which is unconditioned.
[1087] Which are the states that have visibility ?
The sphere of [visible] forms.
[1088] Which are the states that have no visibility ?
The spheres of the senses and sense-objects ; the four
skandhas ; that form also which, being neither visible nor
impingeing, is included under [mental] states ;* and un-
compounded element.
^ Sappaccaya, = attano nipphadakena, saha
paccayena. Asl. 47.
2 One would have expected the reading to be asankhata
va dhatu, instead of . . . ca dhatu, given both in the
text and in K. The Cy. has asankhata-dhatum sand-
haya.
^ Sankhata is defined as *made, come together by
conditions.' Asl. 47. ^ See § 1052.


[1089] Which are the states that impinge ?i
The spheres of the senses and sense-objects.
[1090] Which are the states that are non-impingeing ?
The four skandhas ; that form also which, being neither
visible nor impingeing, is included under [mental] states
;
also uncompounded element.
[1091] Which are the states that have [material] form 9^
The four great principles as well as the form that is
derived from the four great phenomena.^
[1092] Which are the states that have no material form ?
The four skandhas, and uncompounded element.
[1093] Which are the states that are mundane ?*
Co-Intoxicant^ states, good, bad and indeterminate, re-
lating to the worlds of sense, of form, or of the formless,
to wit, the five skandhas.
[1094] Which are the states that are supra-mundane ?
The Paths that are the Unincluded, and the Fruits of
the Paths, and uncompounded element.
[1095] Which are the states that are cognizable in one
way, and not cognizable in another way ?
States that are cognizable by sight are not cognizable by
hearing ; conversely, states that are cognizable by hearing
are not cognizable by sight. States that are cognizable by
sight are not cognizable by smell ... by taste ... by
body-sensibility, and conversely.
1 Sappatigha. Cf. § 597, et seq.
^ Eupino, i.e., they have a form which as such is devoid
of discriminative consciousness (avinibhogavasena).
AsL, p. 47, cf. p. 56 ; also Mil. 63 ; M. i. 293.
.
3 0/ § 597.
* Lokiya = bound down to, forming a part of, the circle
(of existence), which for its dissolving and crumbling away
(lujjana palujjana) is called loko. To have got beyond
the world, to be a non-conforming feature in it—in it, but
not of it—is to be lokuttaro. Asl. 47, 48.
5 See § 1103.


States that are cognizable by hearing are not cognizable
by smell ... by taste ... by body-sensibility ... by
sight, and conversely.
So for states that are cognizable by smell, by taste, and
by body-sensibility.i
1 The Cy. meets the question. Why is there no couplet
telling which states are cognizable or not cognizable by
representative cognition or ideation (manovinnanam)?
by the answer, Such a distinction is quite valid, '
is not
not-there,' but it is not stated explicitly, because of the
absence of fixing or judging (vavatthanam). *
There is
none of this when, for instance, we judge, such and such
things are not cognizable by visual intellection.' See
Asl. 369- Cf. Mil. 87, where this intellectual process is
more clearly set forth. Buddhaghosa's argument is to me
less clear.