Early Monastic Buddhism v2.c36.38

v2.c36.38

V. refutes this contention by saying that *pudgala* here refers only to *skandha-santāna* (continuity of skandhas) and not to anything else. The Vā. then cite the *Bhārahārasūtra*, and assert that by *bhāra* is meant the constituents (*skandhas*) of a being and by *bhārahāra* the individual (*pudgala*) who is known by a name, gotra etc.¹ If *bhāra* (=*skandhas*) included *bhāra hāra* (=*pudgala*), there was no need of distinguishing the two and so *pudgala* exists apart from *skandhas*, it is neither identical with nor different from *skandhas*.