[904] Which phenomena (dhammā) are both roots (hetu) and associated with roots (hetu-sampayutta)? Wherein two or three roots arise together — these phenomena are both roots and associated with roots.
Which phenomena are associated with roots but not roots? The wholesome (kusala) in the four planes (bhūmi); the unwholesome (akusala); the resultant (vipāka) in the four planes, setting aside the rootless (ahetuka) arisings of mind (cittuppāda) from among the sense-sphere (kāmāvacara) resultants; the functional indeterminate (kiriyābyākata) in the three planes, setting aside the rootless arisings of mind from among the sense-sphere functionals; setting aside the roots arisen herein — these phenomena are associated with roots but not roots.
Phenomena dissociated from roots (hetu-vippayutta) are not to be said to be either "both roots and associated with roots" or "associated with roots but not roots."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.