Early Monastic Buddhism v2.c36.24

v2.c36.24

The Vā. reply that fire and fuel are co-existent and the latter is a support of the former (upādāya; āśritya), and that one is not wholly different from the other, for fuel is not totally devoid of the fiery element; in the same way pudgala should be distinguished from skandhas. Vasubandhu challenges the Vā. by citing the instance of a burning log of wood and saying that it represents both fuel and fire and hence they are identical (ananya).