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Abhidhammapiṭaka · Paṭṭhāna (3) · Vol. 42 · Section 502

[502] Dependent on a tie phenomenon (gantha-dhamma), a tie phenomenon arises, not by prenascence condition (purejāta-paccaya): In the immaterial [plane] (arūpa), dependent on the bodily tie (kāyagantha) of dogmatic insistence that "this alone is the truth" (idaṃsaccābhinivesa), the bodily tie of covetousness (abhijjhā) arises; dependent on the bodily tie of covetousness, the bodily tie of dogmatic insistence that "this alone is the truth" arises. In the immaterial [plane] adherence to rules and rituals (sīlabbataparāmāsa) does not exist; thus nine questions should be formulated. Not by postnascence condition (pacchājāta-paccaya): nine. Not by repetition condition (āsevana-paccaya): nine. Not by kamma condition (kamma-paccaya): three. Not by kamma-result condition (vipāka-paccaya): nine. Not by nutriment condition (āhāra-paccaya): one. Not by faculty condition (indriya-paccaya): one. Not by absorption condition (jhāna-paccaya): one. Not by path condition (magga-paccaya): one. Not by association condition (sampayutta-paccaya): three. Not by dissociation condition (vippayutta-paccaya): nine. Not by absence condition (natthi-paccaya): three. Not by disappearance condition (vigata-paccaya): three.

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.

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