Manual of Indian Buddhism c5.s2.3

c5.s2.3

² MV. I, 6, 36. Dh. Saṅg. 1309 adds a fifth, viz. *asaṅkhata dhātu*. In Saṃy. N. II, p. 3 the four Skandhas are *vedanā*, *saññā*, *phassa*, and *manasikāra*. The usual N. enumeration of the 5 Skandhas is: *rūpa*, *vedanā*, *sañjñā*, *saṃskāra*, *vijñāna*; see BURNOUF Intr. 511, but Śaṃkara on Brahma-S. II, 2, 18, Dharma-S. XXII, and Sarvad. Saṅg. p. 20 follow a different order, a circumstance connected with the variance in the definitions of the terms. — A scholastic enumeration of the twenty-eight-fold Rūpakkhandha occurs in Vis. M.; see CHILDERS s. v. *rūpam*. — On the 18 Dhātus, principles or properties of primary substances, see Dharma-S. XXV and the references there. How these are connected and how unconnected with each of the 5 Skandhas, see Dhatuk. P. p. 2; cp. p. 51 f.