________________ 93 3. Chitta-viprayukta-samskara of not only the rupa but of all phenomenal elements. These were not enumerated as separate dharmas in the traditional formula of the five skandhas. If a large number of new chaitasikas could be added under the samskara skandha, there was no reason why these four lakshanas could not also be accommodated under the heading, particularly when these were specifically called 'samskrita-lakshanas' by the sutra. But these lakshanas were not exclusively chaitasika, and could not, therefore, be treated as purely mental factors, in as much as they covered even the rupa-skandha. The origin of a novel category called the (rupa-chitta-vi prayukta-samskara)? is perhaps to be traced to an attempt to include the lakshanas and such other aspects or qualities in the traditional formula of the panchaskandha. The term chitta-vippayutta is known to the Dhammasangani. But there it refers only to the rupa khandha and nibbana It is not recognised as a seperate category as in the Vaibhashika school. The Katharatthu contains a controversy8 where the opponet holds that the pariutthanas ('outbursts' of anusayas) are chitta-vippayutta dhammas. Buddhaghosa attributes this view to the Andhakas. 4 In his commentary on another controversy on the anusayas, he says that the Andhakas, Uttarapathakas, Mahasanghikas and Sammitiyas hold that the anusayas are chitta-vippayutta. According to Yasomitra, the Vatsiputriyas also maintained the same view. The jivitindriya was also, according to Buddhaghosa, considered as a chitta-vippayutta dhamma by Pubba-seliyas and Sammitiyas." The Yogachara 1 Yasomitra explains this term fully. These dharmas are disassociated from the chitta but are more akin to it than to the rupa-skandhas. Hence they are included in the nama-skandhas. The term viprayukta is used for excluding the chaittas which are samprayukta. The term Samskara is used to exclude the asamskrita dharmas. Thus the viprayukta samskaras are distinct from the rupa, chitta, chaitta and (asam. skrita) dharmas. Vide Adv. p. 85, notes. 2 Dhs. 1192. 3 kv. XIV. 6. Vide Adv. p. 223, n. 7. 4 Ibid. 5 See KvA. IX. 4, X.I. 1, XIV. 3. Vide Ado, p. 223, n. 7. 6 Saku. p. 442. Vide Adv. p. 220. the chaittas which ares. The term vipravukt: nskara is used to ct from thoskrita dharamprayukta. a piprayukta
