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Viyahapannatti 19.9

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19.9.774

"How many kinds of activity, Venerable Sir, are taught?"
"Gautama! Five kinds of activity are taught, namely: substance-activity, space-activity, time-activity, state-of-existence-activity, and state-of-being-activity."
"How many kinds of activity of inhabitants of hell, Venerable Sir, are taught?"
"Gautama! Five kinds of activity are taught, namely: substance-activity up to state-of-being-activity. In this way up to the Vaimānikas."
"How many kinds of body-activity, Venerable Sir, are taught?"
"Gautama! Five kinds of body-activity are taught, namely: gross-body-activity up to karmic-body-activity. In this way up to the Vaimānikas, according to how many bodies each has."
"How many kinds of sense-activity, Venerable Sir, are taught?"
"Gautama! Five kinds of sense-activity are taught, namely: auditory-sense-activity up to tactile-sense-activity. In this way up to the Vaimānikas, according to how many senses each has."
In this manner, by this order: speech-activity is of four kinds, mind-activity is of four kinds, passion-activity is of four kinds, transmigration-burst-activity is of seven kinds, consciousness-notion-activity is of four kinds, lesyā-activity is of six kinds, view-activity is of three kinds, gender-activity is taught as of three kinds, namely: female-gender-activity, male-gender-activity, and neuter-gender-activity. All these standard categories from inhabitants of hell up to the Vaimānikas are to be stated completely according to whatever each has.
"How many kinds of destruction-of-life-activity, Venerable Sir, are taught?"
"Gautama! Five kinds of destruction-of-life-activity are taught, namely: one-sensed-destruction-of-life-activity up to five-sensed-destruction-of-life-activity. In this way without omission up to the Vaimānikas."
"How many kinds of matter-activity, Venerable Sir, are taught?"
"Gautama! Five kinds of matter-activity are taught, namely: color-activity, smell-activity, taste-activity, touch-activity, and shape-activity."
"How many kinds of color-activity, Venerable Sir, are taught?"
"Gautama! Five kinds are taught, namely: black-color-activity up to white-color-activity. In this way the division: smell-activity is of two kinds, taste-activity is of five kinds, touch-activity is of eight kinds."
"How many kinds of shape-activity, Venerable Sir, are taught?"
"Gautama! Five kinds are taught, namely: circular-shape-activity up to elongated-shape-activity."
"Truly so, Venerable Sir! Truly so, Venerable Sir!" [saying this, Gautama] dwelled up to [revering the Lord].

19.9.775

Substance, space, time, state of existence, and state of being, and body-activity, / sense-activity, speech, mind, passion, and transmigration burst;

19.9.776

Color, taste, smell, touch, and the varieties of shapes are to be understood, / lesyā, view, knowledge, and likewise application and activity.

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