[662] Which is that form that is the eye base (cakkhāyatana)?
That eye which is sensitivity (pasāda) derived from the four great elements (mahābhūta) … this too is "an empty village" — this is that form that is the eye base.
Which is that form that is the ear base (sotāyatana)? … the nose base (ghānāyatana)? … the tongue base (jivhāyatana)? … the body base (kāyāyatana)? … the form base (rūpāyatana)? … the sound base (saddāyatana)? … the odour base (gandhāyatana)? … the taste base (rasāyatana)? … the tangible base (phoṭṭhabbāyatana)?
The earth element (paṭhavī-dhātu) … this too is the tangible element (phoṭṭhabba-dhātu) — this is that form that is the tangible base.
Which is that form that is invisible (anidassana), non-impinging (appaṭigha), and included in the dhamma base (dhammāyatana-pariyāpanna)?
The femininity faculty (itthindriya) … edible food (kabaḷīkāra āhāra) — this is that form that is invisible, non-impinging, and included in the dhamma base.
Thus is the classification of form (rūpa-saṅgaha) in the elevenfold manner.
The Elevenfold (Ekādasaka).
The Analysis of Form (Rūpavibhatti).
The Eighth Recitation Section (bhāṇavāra).¹
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¹ [Editorial note of the Siam Raṭṭha edition, in Pali:] This should be the second [recitation section] within the Rūpakaṇḍa (Chapter on Form). The method in the Aṭṭhasālinī is: the Cittuppādakaṇḍa (Chapter on the Arising of Mind) is somewhat more than six recitation sections; the Rūpakaṇḍa somewhat more than two recitation sections; the Nikkhepakaṇḍa (Chapter of Summaries) exactly three recitation sections; and the Atthuddhārakaṇḍa (Chapter on the Elucidation of Meaning) exactly two recitation sections — thus the entire Dhammasaṅgaṇī treatise is somewhat more than thirteen recitation sections in measure, and, when expounded in full, it becomes boundless in extent. By this [present] method, however, eight recitation sections are to be understood: two on wholesome phenomena (kusalā dhammā), two on unwholesome phenomena, and two on the indeterminate in the classification of mind (citta) — making six in the Cittuppādakaṇḍa — and two here. Thus, by counting in continuous connection from the recitation sections of the Cittuppādakaṇḍa, it is precisely here the eighth.
NIKKHEPAKAṆḌA (THE CHAPTER OF SUMMARIES)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.