VaggaNiyāmakathā

Abhidhammapiṭaka · Kathāvatthu · Vol. 37 · Section 1078

[1078] Sakavādin: "The fixed course (niyāma) is unconditioned (asaṅkhata), and Nibbāna is unconditioned?" Paravādin: "Yes." Sakavādin: "Are there two unconditioned things?" Paravādin: "It should not be said thus. …" Sakavādin: "Are there two unconditioned things?" Paravādin: "Yes." Sakavādin: "Are there two shelters (tāṇa), two retreats (leṇa), two refuges (saraṇa), two final resorts (parāyana), two imperishable states (accuta), two deathless states (amata), two Nibbānas?" Paravādin: "It should not be said thus. …" Sakavādin: "Are there two Nibbānas?" Paravādin: "Yes." Sakavādin: "Is there, of the two Nibbānas, any highness and lowness, any inferiority and superiority, any exaltation and debasement, or a boundary, or a division, or a line, or an interval?" Paravādin: "It should not be said thus. …"

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.

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