成唯識論述記 8.115

8.115

The Commentary states: What follows answers the mutual subsumption among the four conditions, ten causes, and two causes; here they are combined to make the subsumption of the ten causes and two causes. Herein there are two parts: first citing the text, and thereafter the correct explanation. Fascicle thirty-eight states: Cause-condition is subsumed under the productive cause; dominant condition is the auxiliary cause; the middle [two]—the immediately preceding condition and the objective condition—these two conditions are subsumed under the embracing cause (parigraha-hetu). Here, individually and distinctly, the embracing cause subsumes the above two conditions; as for the remaining nine causes, their subsumption by the two conditions can be logically established by analogy, and therefore the treatise does not mention it. It is only because the characteristics of the two conditions are prominent within the embracing [cause] that it is specifically mentioned, not that the auxiliary [cause] does not subsume the two conditions, for dependency, concurrent action, and non-contradiction are subsumed under auxiliary means. Furthermore, having already analyzed the mutual subsumption between the two causes and the ten causes, merely saying that the productive [cause] is the cause-condition, the auxiliary [cause] is the dominant [condition], and the middle two are the embracing [cause] reveals that within the two causes, the auxiliary [cause] subsumes three conditions and the productive [cause] subsumes the cause-condition. By implication it is also shown that minor parts of six among the ten causes are subsumed under cause-condition; a minor part of one cause constitutes the middle two (namely, embracing), or together with dependency, concurrent action, and non-contradiction they also possess the two conditions. The treatise speaks solely of the embracing [cause] because it is prominent, and the remainder is the dominant condition; this principle is already established, so the words of the text are brief.