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² *Sum. Vil.* (I. *H. Q.*, II, i), p. 33 : *Tattha viññāṭabban ti viññāṇaṃ; nibbānass' etaṃ nāmam*. With regard to the second ‘viññāṇa’ Buddhaghosa says “*Tattha viññāṇan ti carimaka-viññāṇam pi abhisaṅkhāra-viññāṇan ti*” (Cf. *Vis. M.*, p. 689). He holds that the viññāṇa, the last consciousness of an arhat, is abhisaṅkhāra (constituted) and that it ceases like the flame of a lamp to pass into a state of indistinguishability (apaṇṇakabhāva). Cf. Keith, *B. Phil.*, pp. 47, 48 where Prof. Keith points out that Prof. Franke's attempt to prove that there is much of negativism in early Buddhism favours the view that Nibbāna of early Buddhism was more idealistic than negativistic. See also O. Franke's notes on Nibbāna in the *Z. D. M. G.*, lxix, pp. 475–481.