Dhammasangani

Enumeration of Phenomena

400 B.C. | 124,932 words

*english translation* The first book of the Abhidhamma (Part 3 of the Tipitaka). The Dhammasangani enumerates all the paramattha dhamma (ultimate realities) to be found in the world. According to one such enumeration these amount to: * 52 cetasikas (mental factors), which, arising together in various combination, give rise to any one of... * ......

Chapter IX - The Category Of Form Under A Ninefold Aspect

[971-973] What is that form which is

(i.) the faculty of vision?
(ii.) the faculty of hearing?
(iii.) the faculty of smell?
(iv.) the faculty of taste?
(v.) the faculty of bodysensibility?
(vi.) the potentiality of femininity?
(vii.) the potentiality of masculinity?
(viii.) the potentiality of vitality?

The eight answers are those given in the original descriptions of the eight faculties or potentialities enumerated (§§ 597, 601, 605, 609, 613, 633-535).

(ix.) What is that form which is not faculty? The spheres of the five kinds of sense-objects . . .[1] and bodily nutriment.

Such is the Category of Form under a Ninefold Aspect.

[End of] the Group of Nine.

Footnotes and references:

[1]:

That is to say, the remainder of § 596, but omitting, of course, the three 'indriyas' of the sexes and vitality, and presumably inserting 'the element of fluidity' (cf p. 203, n. 3).

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