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Abhidhammapiṭaka · Paṭṭhāna (3) · Vol. 42 · Section 389

[389] A phenomenon (dhamma) dissociated from taints (āsava) is a condition for a phenomenon dissociated from taints by prenascence condition (purejāta-paccaya): object-prenascence (ārammaṇa-purejāta) and base-prenascence (vatthu-purejāta). Object-prenascence: one contemplates with insight the eye (cakkhu) … the base (vatthu) as impermanent (anicca), as suffering (dukkha), as not-self (anattā); one sees forms (rūpa) with the divine eye (dibba-cakkhu) and hears sounds with the divine ear element (dibbā sotadhātu); the form base (rūpāyatana) is a condition for eye-consciousness (cakkhu-viññāṇa), the tangible base (phoṭṭhabbāyatana) for body-consciousness (kāya-viññāṇa). 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 aggregates (khandha) dissociated from taints and for delusion (moha) by prenascence condition. A phenomenon dissociated from taints is a condition for a phenomenon associated with taints by prenascence condition: object-prenascence and base-prenascence. Object-prenascence: one relishes and delights in the eye … the base; taking that as object, lust (rāga) arises … grief (domanassa) arises. Base-prenascence: the base is a condition for the aggregates associated with taints by prenascence condition. A phenomenon dissociated from taints is a condition for a phenomenon associated with taints and for a phenomenon dissociated from taints by prenascence condition: object-prenascence and base-prenascence. Object-prenascence: taking the eye … the base as object, the aggregates accompanied by grief, accompanied by doubt (vicikicchā), accompanied by restlessness (uddhacca), and delusion arise. Base-prenascence: the base is a condition for the aggregates accompanied by grief, accompanied by doubt, accompanied by restlessness, and for delusion by prenascence condition.

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.

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