俱舍論記 16.144

16.144

「論曰至名所覺」者，述毘婆沙師解。見、聞、覺、知是根非識。此中言識，舉能依識顯所依根。故《婆沙》百二十一云「見、聞、覺、知是根非識。然舉識者，顯眼等根必由識助方能取境，以同分根能有作用非彼同分故。」

"The treatise says: ... is called what is sensed": this relates the explanation of the Vaibhāṣika masters. Seeing, hearing, sensing, and knowing refer to the sense faculties, not the consciousnesses. Mentioning consciousness here is adducing the consciousness that depends [on the faculty] to reveal the faculty upon which it depends. Hence the *Mahāvibhāṣā*, fascicle 121, says: "Seeing, hearing, sensing, and knowing are the faculties, not the consciousnesses. However, consciousness is mentioned to show that the eye and other faculties must be aided by consciousness to apprehend an object, because a faculty of identical category (sabhāga) is able to perform an operation, whereas one that is not of identical category (tatsabhāga) is not."