________________ Sautrantika and Abhidharmika 55 In the Sb. of the Sachcha-vibhanga, the Four Noble Truths are given in the same words as in the Mahasatipatthana sutta. In the Ab. the same topic is presented with a few significant changes. Here the term ariya (noble) is dropped in order to extend the scope of the second Truth, viz., the samudaya.? In the Suttas the samudaya is described as tanha. In the Abhidhamma all kilesa s form the samudaya. In the Suttas the magga-sachcha is described as the Noble Eightfold Path. In the Ab. this Path is described exclusively in association with the lokuttara (supermundane) states of mind and hence only five angas are spoken of. In the Suttas the dukkha-sachcha is always presented first. In the Abhidhamma, however, the samudaya-sachcha is named in the first place. The theory of Two Truths, viz., the samvriti and paramartha which dominates the Idealistic schools of Buddhism, is not referred to in the Pali Abhidhamma-pitaka. But the Asm. explains it with reference to the Sutra-description of the duhkha-satya. In the Sutras it is described as birth, decay, death, etc., and also as the five upadana-skandhas. The Asm. says of this that the latter description is according to the paramartha-satya, the former description is a matter of samvriti-satya." It is interesting to note that there is no Sb. in the Indriya-vibhanga. This treatise opens with an Ab. Buddhaghosa explains that the twenty-two indriyas do not occur in their traditional order in any Sutta. Certain items of these occur here and there, but their arrangement in the given order is found only in the Abhidhamma. Yasomitra, however, quotes a Sutra passage enumerating the twenty-two indriyas in the same order as in the Abhidharma.4 In view of the above evidence of Buddhaghosa it will not be unfair to treat this particular Vaibhashika sutra as of late origin, composed by the Abhidharmikas to give credence to their enumerations. . 1 Vbh. A, p. 122. 2 p. 38. 3 Vbh. A. p. 125. Vide Adv. p. 44, n. 1. 4 Saku. p. 90. Vide Adv. p. 44, n. 1.
