俱舍論記 4.207

4.207

「謂名與色至生果功能」者，經部答。言名色者，名謂四蘊、色謂色蘊。彼宗種子熏名及色，謂名、色中於生自果。所有種子相續不斷，名展轉。將生自果名隣近，隣近果也。無間取果名功能，正起功能也。此三皆是種子異名。此展轉，由種子相續故，展轉不斷。此隣近，由種子轉變故，隣近於果。此功能，由種子差別故，正起功能。此三亦是種子異名。如其次第釋上三種。又解：此果，由種子相續、轉變、差別故生。何名第二轉變？謂相續種子中將欲生果，其種轉變，後異於前。猶如種子將欲生芽，其體轉變。何名第一相續？謂此種子望後為因、望前為果，故得通攝三世諸行，總名相續。於此文中，所以先解展轉後解相續者，以約相續明展轉故。又解：義便即明，何論次第。何名第三差別？謂有種子無間生果功能，此後念種與前種異，故名差別。經部因、果前後不同，故說無間生果功能。又解：謂展轉功能、隣近功能，謂相續轉變相續差別，由此相續轉變即是展轉功能，此由相續差別即是隣近功能。

Regarding 'Namely name and form... capacity to produce a fruit': the Sautrāntika answers. Regarding 'name and form', 'name' refers to the four skandhas, and 'form' refers to the rūpa-skandha. In their school, seeds perfume name and form; that is, within name and form there is the capacity to produce their own fruit. Any uninterrupted continuity of seeds is called 'gradual transmission'. When on the verge of producing its own fruit, it is called 'proximity'—proximity to the fruit. Grasping the fruit without interruption is called 'capacity'—the active exercise of capacity. All three of these are alternative names for 'seed'. This gradual transmission is uninterrupted because of the continuity of seeds. This proximity is close to the fruit because of the transformation of the seed. This capacity is the active exercise of capacity because of the differentiation of the seed. These three are also alternative names for 'seed'. In that order they explain the above three. Another explanation: this fruit arises through the continuity, transformation, and differentiation of seeds. What is the second, 'transformation'? When among the continuous seeds they are about to produce a fruit, the seed transforms, the subsequent becoming different from the prior. Just as when a seed is about to produce a sprout, its substance transforms. What is the first, 'continuity'? Because this seed looks forward as cause and backward as fruit, it can encompass all conditioned dharmas of the three times, and is collectively called 'continuity'. In this text, why was gradual transmission explained first and continuity second? Because gradual transmission is clarified in terms of continuity. Another explanation: it was explained as the context demanded; why debate the sequence? What is the third, 'differentiation'? It refers to the seed's capacity to produce a fruit without interruption; this subsequent moment's seed differs from the prior seed, hence it is called 'differentiation'. In the Sautrāntika, cause and fruit differ sequentially, hence it speaks of the capacity to produce a fruit without interruption. Another explanation: gradual transmission capacity and proximate capacity refer to the continuity of transformation and the continuity of differentiation; by this, the continuity of transformation is the gradual transmission capacity, and the continuity of differentiation is the proximate capacity.