Dighanikaya 11.498

11.498

Tattha na gādhatīti na patiṭṭhāti, ime cattāro mahābhūtā kiṃ āgamma appatiṭṭhā bhavantīti attho. Upādinnaṃyeva sandhāya pucchati. Dīghañca rassañcāti saṇṭhānavasena upādārūpaṃ vuttaṃ. Aṇuṃ thūlanti khuddakaṃ vā mahantaṃ vā, imināpi upādārūpe vaṇṇamattameva kathitaṃ. Subhāsubhanti subhañca asubhañca upādārūpameva kathitaṃ. Kiṃ pana upādārūpaṃ subhanti asubhanti atthi? Natthi. Iṭṭhāniṭṭhārammaṇaṃ paneva kathitaṃ. Nāmañca rūpañcāti nāmañca dīghādibhedaṃ rūpañca. Uparujjhatīti nirujjhati, kiṃ āgamma asesametaṃ nappavattatīti.

Therein, "finds no footing": does not become established; the meaning is: depending on what do these four great essentials become unestablished? He asks referring solely to what is appropriated. "Long and short": derived form is spoken of by way of shape. "Small and gross": minute or large; by this too merely color among derived form is spoken of. "Fair and foul": derived form is spoken of indeed as fair and foul. But is there derived form that is [inherently] fair or foul? There is not. Yet an agreeable or disagreeable sense object is spoken of. "Name and form": name, and form differentiated as long and so forth. "Ceases": is stopped; depending on what does this completely not proceed?