—  833  — 
Г§  4.  The  Individual  not  included  in  the  table  of  the 
Elements]. 
Vasubandhu.  Further,  if  the  Individual  is  included  as  a  separate  ele-  05.  ь.  2. 
ment  among  the  elements  of  a  personal  life,  then  we  must  admit  the  existence 
of  a  new  category  of  congnizable  elements,  a  fifth  category.  For  the  cogni- 
zable elements  are  either  impermanent  —  past,  present  and  future — ,  or 
permanent.  (That  makes  four  categories).  Now  if  your  Individual  is  an 
existence  neither  constantly  changing,  nor  eternal,  it  will  constitute  a  fifth, 
intermediate  category  —  an  existence  neither  momentary,  nor  eternal.12 
VatsipuMya.  This  cannot  be  maintained. 
Vasubandhu.  What  is  it  then? 
VatsipuMya.  It  is  undefinable :  it  neither  does  nor  does  not  constitute 
any  fifth  category. 
Vasubandhu.  When  we  are  applying  to  an  idea  the  name  «an  Indi-  95.  b.  4. 
vidual»,  what  is  the  corresponding  object?  Is  it  the  elements  of  a  personal 
life,  or  is  it  a  (real)  Individual?  In  the  first  case  we  are  applying  the  name 
to  the  elements  only,  since  there  is  no  (real)  object  so  called.  In  the  second, 
why  should  this  name  be  conditioned  by  the  elements,  since  it  is  conditioned 
by  the  real  Individual  itself? 
VatsipuMya.  We  maintain  that  in  the  presence  of  all  the  elements 
of  a  personal  life  we  perceive  the  object  called  Individual.  Therefore  we  use 
this  name  as  conditioned  by  the  elements. 
Vasubandhu.  But  colour  too  is  perceived  under  the  condition  that  the 
sense  of  vision,  aroused  attention  and  light  be  present.  Hence  you  must  main- 
tain that  it  is  « conditioned »  by  them  and  therefore  nominal.  (There  will  be 
no  unconditioned  existence  altogether). 
[§  5.  How  is  the  Individual's  existence  cognized]. 
Vasubandhu.  Now  I  should  like  you  to  answer  the  following  question.  95.  b.  7. 
There  are  six  kinds  of  cognition,  (five  sense-perceptions,  according  to  the 
number  of  senses,  and  one  purely  mental).  By  which  of  them  is  the  Individual 
cognized? 
VatsipuMya.  We  answer:  by  all  the  six! 
Vasubandhu.  How  is  that  to  be  understood? 
VatsipuMya.  If  we  have  a  visual  perception  of  some  coloured  shape 13,  95.  b.  8. 
and  if  we  thereby  indirectly  cognize  the  presence  of  a  human  Individual, 
we  may  maintain  that  lie  is  cognized  by  sight.  But  we  neither  can  admit 
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