俱舍論記 3.113

3.113

「化生初位至初得八根」者，化生亦攝中有。簡餘三生，故言化生。初位，謂中、生有初受生位。二形化生，唯是生有初念，不通中有，以中有身女、男定故。故下論云「必無中有非男非女，以中有身必具根故。」餘文可知。應知此中四生初得異熟根者，通據中、生二有初念。是異熟根體現在前，剎那新成即名為得，非先不成方名為得。與前解得義稍不同。七色、命根，於中、生有初受生位隨應而得。意及五受、信等五根，於中、生有初生位雖亦有得，非異熟故，不名為得。故《婆沙》一百四十七云「問：餘無色根爾時亦得，謂意、五受、信等五根，此中何故不說？答：此中應說而不說者，當知有餘。有說：爾時一切得者，此中即說餘無色根雖有得者而非一切，是故不說。謂上地沒生下地時，雖得彼根，若自地沒還生自地，彼皆不得，是故不說。有說：此中但問初得業所生者，初受生位餘無色根，雖有得者而非業生，故此不說。後位所得雖業所生，而非初得，故亦不說（已上論文）。」

"At the initial stage of apparitional birth ... initially eight faculties are acquired": apparitional birth also includes intermediate existence (antarābhava). To distinguish it from the other three forms of birth, it says "apparitional birth." "Initial stage" refers to the initial stage of taking birth in intermediate existence or rebirth existence (upapattibhava). Apparitionally born beings with two sexes exist only in the initial moment of rebirth existence and do not apply to intermediate existence, because the body of an intermediate existence is definitively either female or male. Thus the treatise below states: "There is definitely no intermediate existence that is neither male nor female, because the body in intermediate existence is definitely endowed with the faculties." The rest of the text is understandable. One should know that here, the initial acquisition of maturation faculties in the four forms of birth universally refers to the initial moment of the two existences, intermediate and rebirth. The essence of the maturation faculties being present, their being newly achieved in that moment is called "acquisition" (prāpti), not that one must have previously not possessed them to call it acquisition. This differs slightly from the earlier explanation of the meaning of acquisition. The seven physical faculties and the vitality faculty are acquired as appropriate at the initial stage of taking birth in intermediate or rebirth existence. Although the mental faculty, the five feelings, and the five faculties of faith and the rest are also acquired at the initial stage of birth in intermediate or rebirth existence, because they are not maturation, they are not called "acquisition." Therefore, the *Mahāvibhāṣā*, fascicle 147, states: "Question: The remaining non-physical faculties are also acquired at that time, namely the mind, the five feelings, and the five faculties of faith and the rest; why are they not mentioned here? Answer: What should be mentioned here but is not mentioned, one should know that there is something omitted. Some say: Whatever is acquired by all at that time is mentioned here; the remaining non-physical faculties, though acquired by some, are not acquired by all, and therefore are not mentioned. That is, when dying from a higher stage and taking birth in a lower stage, although one acquires those faculties, if dying from one's own stage and being reborn into one's own stage, none of them are acquired, and therefore they are not mentioned. Some say: Here it only asks about what is initially acquired from karma; at the initial stage of taking birth, the remaining non-physical faculties, though acquired, are not karma-born, so they are not mentioned here. What is acquired at later stages, though karma-born, is not initially acquired, so it is also not mentioned (thus far the text of the treatise)."