俱舍論頌疏論本 1.115

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問：「始自眼根，終于無表，世尊何故說為色耶？」答：「論有兩釋。第一釋云：可變壞故，名為色蘊（變者，顯剎那無常。壞者，顯眾同分無常也）。誰能變壞（問也）？謂手觸故即便變壞。廣說乃至蚊虻等觸。此變壞者即是可惱壞義（答前問也。下文引證）。故大德法救〈集義品〉中作如是說：

Question: 'Beginning from the eye faculty and ending with the unmanifest, why does the World-Honoured One designate them as form (rūpa)?' Answer: 'The treatise has two explanations. The first explanation states: because it can be changed and broken, it is called the aggregate of form (rūpaskandha) ("changed" indicates momentary impermanence; "broken" indicates the impermanence of the generic group). What can change and break it? (This is the question.) Namely, touched by the hand, it immediately changes and breaks; and so on extensively up to being touched by mosquitoes, gnats, and the like. This being changed and broken means being distressed and destroyed. (This answers the preceding question; below, a citation is adduced as proof.) Therefore the venerable Dharmatrāta spoke thus in the Arthavargīya: