俱舍論頌疏論本 6.6

6.6

The commentary explains: The first three lines of the verse list the names of the six causes, and the fourth line concludes by returning to their own school. 1. Efficient cause (kāraṇahetu), 2. coexistent cause (sahabhūhetu), 3. homogeneous cause (sabhāgahetu), 4. associated cause (samprayuktakahetu), 5. universal cause (sarvatragahetu), and 6. ripening cause (vipākahetu); these will be explained below. Schools such as the Sautrāntika do not accept the six causes, because no sūtra speaks of them; they accept the four conditions, because sūtras speak of them. However, within the Sarvāstivāda school, the great arhat Kātyāyanīputra contemplated in a quiet chamber and stated that there is a Sūtra of Six Causes transmitted by the devas; this is not accepted by other schools. Thus the treatise states: 'The Abhidharma masters accept that causes are only of these six kinds.'