俱舍論記 6.45

6.45

「若爾如前至連持令住」者，經部難。若爾，如前所說色、聲、香、味、觸造色，隨其所應互不相離。如是造色，與四大種心隨相等與心等法皆不相離，齊有、齊無，應互為因。若謂如三杖互相依住展轉有力，如是同時俱有諸法展轉相望有力用者，因果義成，是俱有因。此所造等雖復同時，相望無力，非俱有因。經部牒救訖，破云：此應思惟。如是三杖，為由俱起相依力住，如汝所說？為由前生人功聚集因緣力故，令後三杖俱起住耶，如我所說？經部意說：此三杖住，但由前念因緣力住，非由同時。彼計前因後果。又於彼中，豈唯三杖相依而住，亦有別物繩鉤能連，地復能持令得安住，如何但言三杖相依？西方外道持三杖行，繩連鉤繼，交差置地上，安隨身等物。故引彼三杖為喻。

On "If so, as previously [...] holding them together so that they stand": this is the Sautrāntika objecting. If so, as previously stated, the derived matter of visible forms, sounds, odors, tastes, and tangibles, as appropriate, are inseparable from one another. Such derived matter, being inseparable from the four great elements, and phenomena like the mind-concomitants being inseparable from the mind, existing equally and being non-existent equally, they ought to be mutually causes. If you say: just as three staves lean upon one another to stand, being mutually efficacious, and in this way simultaneous co-existent phenomena are mutually efficacious with respect to one another, so the meaning of cause and effect is established and it is a co-existent cause; whereas although these derived [matters] and so forth are also simultaneous, they have no efficacy with respect to one another, and are not co-existent causes—the Sautrāntika, having cited their defense, refutes it, saying: this should be examined. Do these three staves stand due to the efficacy of leaning upon one another in co-arising, as you say? Or is it due to the causal conditions of human effort having gathered in prior moments that causes the subsequent three staves to arise together and stand, as we say? The Sautrāntika's intended meaning is: the standing of these three staves is solely maintained through the efficacy of prior moments' causal conditions, not by simultaneity. They maintain prior cause and subsequent effect. Furthermore, in that [case], how could it be only that the three staves lean upon one another to stand? There are also other things, such as ropes and hooks, that can connect them, and the ground, further, can support them so that they are able to stand firmly. How could one say solely that the three staves lean upon one another? Non-Buddhists in the western regions walk holding three staves; connected with rope and joined by hooks, they are set crossed on the ground to support their personal belongings and the like. Therefore, those three staves are adduced as a simile.