VaggaRūpaṅsahetukantikathā

Abhidhammapiṭaka · Kathāvatthu · Vol. 37 · Section 1664

[1664] Sakavādin: Is form (rūpa) accompanied by a root-cause (sahetuka)? Paravādin: Yes. Sakavādin: Is it something having an object (sārammaṇa)? Does there exist adverting (āvajjanā) of it … aspiration (paṇidhi)? Paravādin: It should not be said thus. … Sakavādin: Is it not without an object (anārammaṇa)? Is there no adverting of it … aspiration? Paravādin: Yes. Sakavādin: If it is without an object, and there is no adverting of it … aspiration, then surely it should not be said that form is accompanied by a root-cause.

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.

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