The History of Buddhist Thought c20.50

c20.50

(ii) The second group of fourteen saṃskāras are immaterial elements, but not associated with consciousness: acquisition (prāpti), a force which keeps together the elements of one stream of consciousness, non-acquisition (aprāpti), a force which keeps some of these elements in abeyance, allotment of groups (nikāyasabhāga), a force producing general classes, three forces which produce respectively unconsciousness (āsaṃjñika), the attainment of the unconscious, and the attainment of cessation, life force (jīvita), origination (jāti), continuance (sthiti), decay (jarā), impermanence (anityatā), the three forces giving signification to words (nāma), sentences (pada), and syllables (vyañjana).