[616] "'This noble truth (ariyasacca) of suffering (dukkha) is to be fully understood' … 'has been fully understood': thus, with regard to dhammas unheard before, the eye (cakkhu) arose … light (āloka) arose. In what sense did 'the eye arise'? … In what sense did 'light arise'? 'The eye arose' — in the sense of seeing … 'Light arose' — in the sense of illumination.
The eye is a dhamma; the sense of seeing is its meaning (attha) … Light is a dhamma; the sense of illumination is its meaning. These five dhammas and five meanings have suffering as their basis, have truth (sacca) as their basis; they have truth as their object, truth as their domain; they are comprised in truth, included in truth; they have come together in truth, they stand in truth, they are established in truth.
'The wheel of the Dhamma (dhammacakka)': in what sense is it the wheel of the Dhamma? He sets in motion both the Dhamma and the wheel — thus it is the wheel of the Dhamma. He sets in motion both the wheel and the Dhamma — thus it is the wheel of the Dhamma. He sets it in motion by means of the Dhamma — thus it is the wheel of the Dhamma. He sets it in motion through righteous conduct (dhammacariyā) — thus it is the wheel of the Dhamma. Standing in the Dhamma he sets it in motion — thus it is the wheel of the Dhamma. Established in the Dhamma he sets it in motion — thus it is the wheel of the Dhamma. … Nibbāna, which merges in the deathless, is a dhamma in the sense of being the culmination; he sets that Dhamma in motion — thus it is the wheel of the Dhamma."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.