Dighanikaya 15.114_2

15.114_2

Dutiyapañhe ruppanākāraruppanaliṅgaruppananimittavasena rūpanti uddesavasena ca ākārādīnaṃ attho veditabbo. Paṭighasamphassoti sappaṭighaṃ rūpakkhandhaṃ vatthuṃ katvā uppajjanakasamphasso. Idhāpi thero jamburukkhe asati ambarukkhato jambupakkassa uppattiṃ viya nāmakāyato tassa uppattiṃ asampaṭicchanto ‘‘no hetaṃ bhante’’ti āha.

In the second question, the meaning of 'modes' and so on should be understood by way of the mode of being deformed, the characteristic of being deformed, the sign of being deformed, and by way of the designation 'form'. 'Impact-contact' means the contact arising with the aggregate of form having impact as its basis. Here too, just as the appearance of a rose-apple fruit from a mango tree when there is no rose-apple tree [is impossible], the elder, not accepting its arising from the group of mentality, said, 'No indeed, venerable sir.'