ཆས་མངན་པའ་མཛད་ཀྱ་ཚག་ལའར་བྱས་པ 4

4

Dhātu, and the dhātus of water, fire, and wind;
They are established by their actions of holding and so forth;
Their natures are solidity, fluidity, heat, and motility.
In worldly convention,
Color and shape are called earth;
Water and fire likewise; wind is both the collection
And the dhātu itself, or something similar to that.
Just those indriyas and objects
Are held to be the ten āyatanas and dhātus.
Vedanā is experience; saṃjñā
Has the nature of apprehending signs.
The saṃskāraskandha consists of those other than the four.
Those three, together with avijñapti
And the asaṃskṛtas,
Are called the dharmāyatana and the dharmadhātu.
Vijñāna is individual awareness;
That is also the manāyatana.
It is also held to be seven dhātus:
The six vijñānas and manas.
Whichever vijñāna has just ceased
Among the six is manas.
In order to establish the support of the sixth,
Eighteen dhātus are accepted.
All are subsumed by one skandha,
One āyatana, and one dhātu,
By their intrinsic nature,
Because they do not possess the reality of others.
Although the eye and so forth are two,
Because their type, sensory range, and consciousness
Are similar, they are just a single dhātu;
Two arose for the sake of beauty.
The meanings of skandha, āyatana, and dhātu
Are heap, gate of arising, and lineage.
Because of the threefold delusion, capacities, and inclinations,
The three, skandhas and so on, were taught.
Because of being the root of disputes,
The cause of saṃsāra, and because of the order,
From among caittas, vedanā and
Saṃjñā are posited as separate skandhas.
Asaṃskṛtas were not spoken of
Among the skandhas, because they do not fit the meaning.
The order corresponds to coarseness, defilement,
And the analogy of vessels, in accordance with the dhātus.
The first five are because of present objects;
Four are because their objects are derived from the elements;
The other is because it functions quickly and not too far,
Or else their order is as they are situated.
Because of particular meaning and prominence,
And because of gathering many and superior dharmas,
One is called the rūpāyatana