Dighanikaya 15.116_2

15.116_2

Ettāvatā khoti viññāṇe nāmarūpassa paccaye honte, nāmarūpe viññāṇassa paccaye honte, dvīsu aññamaññapaccayavasena pavattesu ettakena jāyetha vā…pe… upapajjetha vā, jātiādayo paññāyeyyuṃ aparāparaṃ vā cutipaṭisandhiyoti.

'Insofar as, indeed': when consciousness is a condition for name-and-form, and name-and-form is a condition for consciousness, both proceeding by way of mutual conditionality—to this extent one may be born... or be reborn; birth and so on may be known, or decease and rebirth-linking over and over.