俱舍論頌疏論本 9.44

9.44

The commentary states: "Ignorance is the stage of past affliction": this refers to the time when afflictions arose in a past birth, which is called the stage of past affliction. The five skandhas of this stage, ripening as fruit in the present, are collectively named ignorance. Since they are the five skandhas, why is ignorance singled out by name? The treatise says: "Because they operated simultaneously with ignorance, and because they manifested by the power of ignorance. Just as when it is said 'the king travels,' it does not mean there is no retinue, yet because the king is preeminent among them, it is collectively referred to as 'the king travels' (Explanation: 'they' refers to those five skandhas of the stage of past affliction)."