Monday, June 6, 2011

Dhamma-Sangani - THE DIVISION ENTITLED ELIMINATION - The Great 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 XI.
The Great Intermediate Set of Pairs (mahantara-
dukam).]^
[1185, 1186] Which are the states that have
(a) a concomitant object of thought P
The four skandhas.
(h) no concomitant object of thought ?
All form,^ and uncompounded element.
[1187, 1188] Which are the states that are
{a) of the intellect ?^
Cognition applied to sense-impressions ; the element of
ideation and the element of ideational cognition.
(h) not of the intellect ?
The skandhas of feeling, perception and syntheses ; all
form, moreover, and uncompounded element.
[1189, 1190] Which are the states that are
(a) involved in the life of sense ^^ '

1
Cf Chapter III. of this book. The Cy. refrains from
any remarks on the answers in this chapter.
2 Sarammana.
3 See p. 169 :'
' void of idea.' See K. V. 404.
* Citta. See § 1022. 'Cognition applied,' etc., is in
the original cakkhuvinnanam and the rest. When
'
sense '
drops out of account in the following pairs, I have
reverted to the approximately synonymous term *
thought.'
s Cetasika. See § 1022.


The skandhas of feeling, perception and syntheses.
(b) not involved in the life of sense ?
Intellect and all form and uncompounded element.
[1191, 1192] Which are the states that are
(a) associated tvith thought ?
The skandhas of feeling, perception and syntheses.
(b) disconnected with thought ?
All form and uncompounded element.
(Thought must not be described as associated or dis-
connected with itself.)^
[1193, 1194] Which are the states that are
(a) conjoined with thought ? ^
(b) detached from thought ?
Answers as in §§ 1191, 1192 respectively,
(Thought must not be described as conjoined with, or
detached from itself.)
[1195, 1196] Which are the states that are
(a) sprung from thought t
^
The skandhas of feeling, perception and syntheses
;
bodily and vocal intimation ; or whatever other form there
be which is born of thought, caused by thought, sprung
from thought, whether it be in the spheres of sights,
sounds, smells, tastes,* or the tangible, the elements of
space or fluidity, the lightness, plasticity or wieldiness of
1 This refinement in the Buddhist Logic of Terms is
usually expressed by the brief parenthesis governed by
thapetva, excepting. See, e.g., § 984 et seq,
^ Citta-samsattha. '
I.e., in a condition of continuity,
immediate contiguity, with thought.' Asl. 49. The con-
trary -visamsattha = * not in the condition of continuity,
immediate contiguity, with thought, although proceeding in
unity with it.' Ibid.
^ Citta-samutthana. Cf § 667.
* Easayatanam has been omitted in the text, appar-
ently by inadvertence.


form, the integration or subsistence of form, or bodily
nutriment.
{h) not sprung from thought?
Thought; also every other kind of form, and uncom-
pounded element.
[1197, 1198] Which are the states that
(a) come into being together ivith thought ?^
The skandhas of feeling, perception and syntheses
;
bodily and vocal intimation.
(h) do not come into being together with thought t
Thought ; also all other kinds of form,^ and uncom-
pounded element.
[1199, 1200] Which are the states that are
(a) consecutive to thought 1^
(b) not consecutive to thought ?
Answers as in the two foregoing answers respectively,
[1201, 1202] Which are the states that are
{a) conjoined with aiid sprung from thought ?^
The skandhas of feeling, perception and syntheses.
(b) not conjoined with and sprung from thought P
Thought itself ; all form also, and uncompounded
element.
^ Citta-sahabhuno.
^ I.e., except the two modes of intimation, which are
reckoned as *
form.' See § 596.
^ Cittanuparivattina.
* Citta-samsattha-samutthana. The Cy. reads this
and the terms in the two following pairs as dvandva com-
pounds.
^ The negative in the text is not distributed, and the
compound of attributes qualifying *
states ' must be taken
conjunctively. This is borne out by the answer. Cf
§§ 1196, 1198, also p. 204, n. 1.
Saha-bhuno is parsed as saha bhavanti, not bhuta.
Asl. 49.


[1203, 1204] Which are the states that
{a) are conjoined with and sprung from^ and that come into
being together loith, thought ?
(b) are not such as are conjoined with and sprung from
and as come into being together with thought ?^
Answers as in the two foregoing answers respectively.
[1205, 1206] Which are the states that are
(a) conjoined with and sprung from and 'consecutive to
thought
?
(b) not conjoined with, sprung from and consecutive to
thought?
Answers as in the two foregoing ansivers.
[1207, 1208] Which are the states that are
(a) of the self /
The spheres of the five senses and of ideation.
(b) external t
The spheres of the five objects of sense and of ideas.
^
[1209, 1210] Which are the states that are
(a) derived?
The spheres of the five senses . . . and bodily nutri-
ment.^
(b) not derived ?
The four skandhas, the four great phenomena and un-
compounded element.
[1211-1212] Which are the states that are
(a) the issue of grasping ?^
Co-Intoxicant good and bad states, whether they relate
to the worlds of sense, of form, or of the formless ; in other
words, the four skandhas, and such form as is due to karma
having been wrought.
^ See note 5, p. 320. ^ Dhammayatanam.
^
Cf § 596. * See M. i. 190.


(b) not the issue of grasping ?
Co-Intoxicant good and bad states, whether they relate
to the worlds of sense, of form, or of the formless ; in other
words, the four skandhas ; also such k i r i y a-thoughts as
are neither good, nor bad, nor the effects of karma ; the
Paths, moreover, that are the Unincluded and the Fruits
of the Paths, and uncompounded element.

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