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worlds. (47) In the case of any individual coming into exist- 

 ence, this e3c£Do<55 sankhara is the merit or demerit of the 

 acts of his immediate predecessor in that chain of being. 

 From this esoo)3<3>, sankhara 8<3jc^<§^io winnjanan is pro- 

 duced, which is defined to be the consciousness of the eye, 

 the ear, the nose, the tongue, the body and the understand- 

 ing, which form the six Ayatana and are not in existence 

 until after the body is formed : §^x?^<^0o winnyanan 

 therefore can only be understood as signifying a power 

 hereafter to be developed, when the organs have come into 

 existence and come in contact with external objects, (48) How 

 consciousness can exist in the abstract, without the exist* 

 ence of any conscious being, is difficult if not impossible to 

 understand. This undeveloped consciousness is regarded 

 as the antecedent of body and mind, and this body and 

 mind as the antecedent of the organs of the body and 

 mind. (49) The ©^ap^^oo winnyanan or consciousness, which 

 is the third in this chain of existence, is declared to be the 

 EtZSg^-s^Q winnyanan or consciousness of the organs of 

 body and mind which are the fifth in the series. All this 

 unphilosophical confusion of thought and expression is used 



(48.) 333b ^«3©o esoQoo'd^aiceD i^csg^o QzdQ&g^iSss^o (^eaoss 



§^9«S^^oo e33^c§«9^<Sj6° 2^SS3D§.^2^<^oo ^iOC&^^O^^oo ©6^39 



as^ss^oo <§qo g€)e)^5 esoQoddfcScao tattha kataman san- 



kharappachchaya winnanan chakkhuwinnanan sotawinnanan gha- 

 nawinnanan jiwhawinnanan kayawinnanan manowiniianan idan 

 vuchchati sankharappachchaya winnanan. What is the Winnana 

 the consciousness, the consequence of Sankhura, the consciousness 

 of the eye, the consciousness of the ear, the consciousness of the 

 nose, the conssiousness of the tongue, the consciousness of the 

 body, the consciousness of the mind, this is the consciousness, the 

 result of Sankhara. 



(49.) See cDD© SzS.^do £>«d$>33 ^^SD°, Dhamma chakkappa 

 wattana suttan, 



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