________________ 5. Anusaya 109 entity then it is prapti, for the dispute then is only on naming it. If, however, it is identical with mind, then it will result in the fault of mixture or confusion (sankarya-dosha) of good and bad seeds. For surely the Sautrantika will admit that a mind possesses seeds of both the good (kusala) as well as bad (akusala), of sastava as well as anasrava elements. If they are all accumulated in one chitta what is there to determine the nature of a particular chitta as kusala or akusala or avyaklita ? Yasomitra's reply to this criticism is that the sankarya-dosha would arise only if the bijas were to be identical with the mind. But we maintain, he says, that a bija is neither identical with, nor different from the mind, because a blia is not a separate entity (dravya) but only a prajnapti (nominal) dharma. Yasomitra further states that even if a bija is considered identical with chitta, there is no fault : for, a kusala chitta which has, arisen would in that case implant its seed in a (subsequent) chitta of its own santana, the latter chitta being either of the same kind (kusala) or of the opposite kind (akusala). Thereafter (tatah) the (second) chitta would arise as qualified (determined) by the first only in accordance with the principle that a specific effect arises from a specific cause (karanavisesha) [i.e. if the second chitta is anya-jatiya, the bija lies dormant) ... Nor does the fact that a specific sakti is implanted by a kusala-chitta in an akusala-chitta entail (iti) that the akusala becomes kusala or vice versa, since it is only a specific sakti [i. e. it cannot produce effects which, by its very nature, it is not competent to produce] also called bija or vasana. These are all synonyms.? Even the Vaibhashikas, he says, will have to resort to some such theory to explain the phenomena of succession of two heterogeneous chittas. They also believe that an akusala can be succeeded by a kucala. Do the Vaibhashikas here agree 1 Athapy anarthantarabharah, tathapy adoshah. Kusalena hi chittenotpannena sva-jatiye'nya-jatiye va sva-santana-chitte bijam adhi yeta, Tatah karanadiseshat karya-visesha iti visisht am tena tach chittan utpadyeta... ... Na cha kusalenakusale chitte sakti-visesha ahita iti tad akusalan, kusalatam apadyate kusalam va tad akusatatam saktivisesha-matratvat. Saktir bijam va sanety eko'yam arthah Saku. pp. 147-48.
