Nahetusahetukaduka

Abhidhammapiṭaka · Paṭṭhāna (3) · Vol. 42 · Section 150

[150] A not-root, rootless phenomenon (nahetu ahetuko dhammo) is a condition for a not-root, rootless phenomenon by prenascence condition (purejāta-paccaya): object-prenascence (ārammaṇa-purejāta) and base-prenascence (vatthu-purejāta). Object-prenascence: the eye … the base (vatthu) as impermanent … grief (domanassa) arises. When the wholesome and the unwholesome have ceased, a not-root, rootless resultant (vipāka) arises as registration (tadārammaṇatā). The form base (rūpāyatana) is a condition for eye-consciousness (cakkhu-viññāṇa), the tangible-object base (phoṭṭhabbāyatana) for body-consciousness (kāya-viññāṇa), by prenascence condition. Base-prenascence: the eye base (cakkhāyatana) is a condition for eye-consciousness, the body base (kāyāyatana) for body-consciousness; the base is a condition for the not-root, rootless aggregates (khandha) by prenascence condition. A not-root, rootless phenomenon is a condition for a not-root, with-root phenomenon (nahetu sahetuko dhammo) by prenascence condition: object-prenascence and base-prenascence. Object-prenascence: the eye … the base as impermanent … grief arises. When the wholesome and the unwholesome have ceased, a not-root, with-root resultant arises as registration. With the divine eye (dibbacakkhu) one sees a form; with the divine ear element (dibbā sotadhātu) one hears a sound. Base-prenascence: the base is a condition for the not-root, with-root aggregates by prenascence condition.

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.

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