成唯識論述記 8.55

8.55

The Commentary states: Below is the direct explanation: first explaining the productive [cause], then explaining the auxiliary [cause]. It says that the *Bodhisattvabhūmi* speaks of the traction cause, excluding karmic impressions and external indeterminate causes; and it is the same within the generative cause, which also excludes karma and so forth, because they are not direct causes (*hetupratyaya*). The question is asked: How is it known that there are karmic seeds within the generative cause? The text of the treatise states in two places that this cause is a productive cause, and does not mention that it has the sovereign condition (*adhipatipratyaya*).