Early Monastic Buddhism v1.c10.13

v1.c10.13

It appears from the discourse in the *Milindapañha*,³ that among the five *khandhas*, *viññāṇa* was more often identified with *attā* or *jīva* than the rest, but no such distinction is noticeable in the Nikāyas. As a consequence of the identification of *attā* with one of the components of a being, by the non-Buddhists, the texts aver that it can be classified like the beings into three types⁴ thus: