俱舍論疏 9.195

9.195

論「鉢剌底至轉變成緣」，此釋緣也。准《正理》云「經主此中釋差別義。鉢剌底是至義，乃至如是所釋越彼所宗。乃至經主自立此句義已，後自假立如是徵難。如是句義理不應然。所以者何？依一作者有二作用。」准此等文，故知論主依經部宗釋也。西方字法有字界、字緣，略如此方字有形有聲。如一形上聲助不同，目種種法。如水形上，若以可助，即目其河；若以每助，即目海也；若以也助，即目其池；若以白助，即目泉也；若以甚助，即目其湛；若以主助，即目其注。水之一形有種種義，由助字異，注、湛不同，河、海有異。水是濕義，由可助故目河也。若以可為木助，即目其柯。梵字亦爾，鉢剌底是至義，翳底界是行義，由先翳底界行義助鉢剌底至義，轉變成緣。

The treatise says: "[Prati] to [transforms into pratītya, 'conditioned']." This explains pratītya ('conditioned'). Based on the Nyāyānusāra, which states: "Here the author of the treatise [Vasubandhu] explains different meanings. Prati has the meaning of 'reaching' ... thus what is explained violates his own school's tenets ... and after the author of the treatise himself established this meaning of the phrase, he subsequently set up this objection himself: 'Such a phrase-meaning is logically untenable. Why is this so? Because depending on a single agent there would be two actions.'" Based on such passages, we know that the treatise master relies on the Sautrāntika school to explain it. Western grammatical rules have verbal roots (dhātu) and affixes (pratyaya), roughly analogous to Chinese characters having form and sound. Just as on a single form, different auxiliary sounds signify various things: for example, on the water classifier [氵], if assisted by kě [可], it signifies a river [河]; if assisted by měi [每], it signifies the sea [海]; if assisted by yě [也], it signifies a pond [池]; if assisted by bái [白], it signifies a spring [泉]; if assisted by shèn [甚], it signifies deep water [湛]; if assisted by zhǔ [主], it signifies pouring [注]. The single form of water has various meanings; due to the difference of the auxiliary characters, pouring and deep water differ, and river and sea are distinct. Water has the meaning of moisture; because it is assisted by kě, it signifies a river. If kě assists [the classifier for] wood [木], it signifies a branch [柯]. Sanskrit characters are also like this: prati has the meaning of 'reaching', and the verbal root *i* [eti] has the meaning of 'going'; because the meaning of 'going' of the preceding verbal root *i* assists the meaning of 'reaching' of prati, it transforms into pratītya ('conditioned').