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ALAMBANAPARĪKṢĀ
becomes something other than the condition-cause indeed.
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[The author answers:] This is not contradictory [to our experience]. [The preceding moment of] consciousness, as it has been grasped as a distinct object, is accepted as a condition-cause just like its disappearance of immediate preceding moment (samanantaranirodha) a condition-cause. The moment a consciousness of homogeneous character (sabhaga) disappears, the same consciousness is regarded as cause into four ways.34
34 Four causes are hetu, alambana, samanantara and
adhipati.
