俱舍論疏 13.53

13.53

On the Śāstra's: "Yet the Sautrāntikas state ... should be known accordingly": The author of the Śāstra presents the Sautrāntika position to refute the Sarvāstivādins. In the Sarvāstivāda, shape-color has distinct atomic particles that differ from visible color, and these very atomic particles constitute long and the like. The Sautrāntika school maintains that shape has no separate atoms, but rather the accumulation of visible colors forms long and the like, being nominal and not real. "An aggregate of visible colors arising predominantly on one side is called long color": that is, among the four sides, one side is preponderant, like a banner pole. Arising sparsely on one side is called short color, like a melon clump. The rest of the text is intelligible.