Buddha: His Life, his Doctrine, his Order c11.s3.t2.9

c11.s3.t2.9

How this explanation of Nâma has arisen, is evident. The category of “form” or “corporeity” (rûpa), like that of consciousness, is to be met as well in the combination “name and form together with consciousness,” as in the system of the five khandhas “form, sensations, perceptions, conformations, consciousness.” Now the very natural conceit suggested itself to identify the two series of notions, which had actually arisen wholly independently of each other, having the members “form” and “consciousness” in common, and thus the three khandhas “sensations, perceptions, conformations (Samkhârâ = Cetanâ)" of the one series remained over for the category of "name" in the other series.