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stitute a chain of causes and are as such spoken of in the Bauddha system, sometimes cursorily, sometimes at length. They are, moreover, all acknowledged as existing, not by the Bauddhas only, but by the followers of all systems. And as the cycles of Nescience, &c. forming uninterrupted chains of causes and effects revolve unceasingly like waterwheels, the existence of the aggregates (which constitute bodies and minds) must needs be assumed, as without such Nescience and so on could not take place.
This argumentation of the Bauddha we are unable to accept, because it merely assigns efficient causes for the origination of the members of the series, but does not intimate an efficient cause for the formation of the aggregates. If the Bauddha reminds us of the statement made above that the existence of aggregates must needs be inferred from the existence of Nescience and so on, we point out that, if he means thereby that Nescience and so on cannot exist without aggregates and hence require the existence of such, it remains to assign an efficient cause for the formation of the aggregates. But, as we have already shown-when examining the Vaiseshika doctrine-that the formation of aggregates cannot be accounted for even on the assumption of permanent atoms and individual souls in
abode of the six (shadâyatana) is the further developed stage of the embryo in which the latter is the abode of the six senses.Touch (sparsa) is the sensations of cold, warmth, &c. on the embryo's part.-Feeling (vedanâ) the sensations of pleasure and pain resulting therefrom.-Desire (trishnâ) is the wish to enjoy the pleasurable sensations and to shun the painful ones.-Activity (upâdâna) is the effort resulting from desire.-Birth is the passing out from the uterus.-Species (gâti) is the class of beings to which the new-born creature belongs.-Decay (garâ).-Death (maranam) is explained as the condition of the creature when about to die (mumûrsha).-Grief (soka) the frustration of wishes connected therewith.-Lament (paridevanam) the lamentations on that account.-Pain (duhkha) is such pain as caused by the five senses.Durmanas is mental affliction.-The and the like' implies death, the departure to another world and the subsequent return from there.
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