[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Literature, language and dating](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature) › [A History of Indian Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927) › v2.c19.s4.39 # A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s4.39 A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s4.39 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.s4.39](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s4.39) The seventh and last book of the Abhidhammapiṭaka is the Paṭṭhāna-Pakaraṇa, the "Book of the Causal Relationships," or Mahā-Pakaraṇa, "the Great Book," the first part of which is the Tika-Paṭṭhāna and the second part the Duka-Paṭṭhāna.¹ The entire work, deals with the investigation of the 24 kinds of relationships which are assumed between the (corporeal and psychical) phenomena: causal relationship, relationship of subject and object, relationship of the ruler and the ruled, contiguity, co-existence, etc. With the sole exception of Nirvāṇa, which is absolute, there is nothing which is not in some sense relative, \*i.e.\*, which is not related to something else in one of the 24 ways.² Mrs. Rhys Davids recommends the historian of Buddhistic ideas, and of logical and philosophical ideas in general, to study the first part of the Tika-Paṭṭhāna, in which these 24 kinds of relationships are enumerated, calling it "the one notable constructive contribution to knowledge in the Abhidhamma"; though, in general, she speaks rather sceptically about the value of this work of pure scholasticism.³ - [Previous: v2.c19.s4.38](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s4.38) - [Next: v2.c19.s4.40](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s4.40) - [Up: v2.c19.s4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s4) ## Cites (2) - [Paṭṭhāna](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.ap.patthana) — Pāli - [Abhidhammapiṭaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.ap) — Pāli --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s4.39](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s4.39) · Pramāṇa