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Five Pasàda-råpas (Sensitive Material Qualities)
They are the sensitive parts of the organs – eye, ear, nose, tongue
and body. They tend to clarify the co-existing material qualities.
They receive the impressions of the sense-objects.
1 Cakkhu-pasàda
Sensitive part of the eye; it spreads in 7 layers in the
pupil of the eye where images appear.
2 Sota-pasàda
Sensitive part of the ear; it spreads in the place shaped
like a ring inside the ear-holes.
3 Ghàna-pasàda
Sensitive part of the nose; it spreads in the place shaped
like the leg of a goat inside the nostrils.
4 Jivhà-pasàda
Sensitive part of the tongue; it spreads in the middle
upper surface of the tongue.
5 Kàya-pasàda
Sensitive part of the body; it spreads throughout the
whole body sensitive to touch, excluding head-hair,
body-hair, finger-nails and hard dried skin.
Seven Gocara-råpas (Material Qualities of Sense Objects)
They are the five sense-objects observed and frequented by pa¤cavi¤¤àõa.
1 Råpàrammaõa – visible form (vaõõa)
2 Saddàrammaõa – sound (sadda)
3 Gandhàrammaõa – smell (gandha)
4 Rasàrammaõa – taste (rasa)
5 Photthabbàrammaõa – tangible object (pathavã, tejo, vàyo)