Early Monastic Buddhism v2.c36.65

v2.c36.65

The next attempt of the Th. is to show that the Sam. should advocate either *Uccedavāda* or *Sassatavāda*. With this end in view the Th. put the questions whether *puggala* is identical with *rūpa*, or different from *rūpa*, or *puggala* is in *rūpa* (like the container and the contained) or *rūpa* is in *puggala*. The Sam. reject all the four propositions as otherwise they would become either an *Uccedavādin* or a *Sassatavādin*. Though, according to the Sam., *puggala* is of the same nature (*ekadhammo*) as *rūpa* and other elements,³ they would not treat it as an element separate from, and independent of, the 57 elements.