Path of Freedom [Vimuttimagga]

The Five Methods 243Q. What arc the six groups produced by the caloric order? A. Bareoctad,bare-sound-ennead, bare-buoyancy-ennead, buoyancy-sound-decad,bare-eye-ennead, eye-sound-decad. External groups are of two kinds: bareoctadand sound-ennead.Q. What are the three groups which are produced in nutriment ? A. Bareoctad, bare-buoyancy-ennead and bare-eye-ennead.Of groups that are produced by caloric order and nutriment, the continuity,kamma and basis should be known as equal. The rest is as was taught above.The divine life-ennead is fulfilled in the sensuous element and in the sphere ofaction. Eight groups continue because of life: nose, tongue, body, masculinityor femininity, and the three beginning with buoyancy, and torpidity. Theseare not in the form-element. The divine life-ennead pertains to the unconsciousBrahmas. In their body all the sense-organs exist. (Thus one should know),through groups.MATERIAL QUALITIES BY WAY OF BIRTHQ. How, through birth? A. It should be known by way of a male orfemale entering a womb. In the first moment thirty material qualities areproduced. 1 They are the basis-decad, body-decad, femininity-decad, masculinity-decad.In the case of a person who is neither a male nor a female,twenty material qualities are produced. 2 They are the basis-decad and thebody-decad.Taking birth in the sensuous element, a male or a female possessed of thefaculties and the sense-organs arouses seventy material qualities at the time ofbirth. They are the basis-decad, the body-decad, the eye-decad, the ear-decad,the nose-decad, the tongue-decad, the femininity or masculinity-decad.When a blind male or female is born in an evil state, that person arousessixty material qualities, at the moment of birth, namely, (all) except the eye-decad.In the same way a deaf person [447] arouses sixty material qualities, namely,(all) except the ear-decad. A deaf and blind person arouses fifty materialqualities namely, (all) except the eye-decad and the ear-decad. When onewho is neither a male nor a female is born, at the beginning of an aeon, in anevil state, having faculties and sense-organs, that person arouses sixty materialqualities at the moment of birth, namely, (all) except the masculinity or femininitydecad. A person, who is neither a male nor a female and is blind,1. Abhms. 77, v. 746: Gabbaseyyaka-sattassa, patisandikkhane panatirhsa rupani jay ante, sabhavass' eva dehino.2. (a) Ibid. v. 747: Abhava-gabbaseyyanam; andajdnan ca visatibhavanti pana rupani, kdyavatthuvasena tu,(b) Cp. Vbh-a. 169-70: Evarh pavattamdne c' etasmirh namarupe yasmd abhavakagabbhaseyyakdnamandajdnan ca patisandhikkhane vatthu-kdyavasena rupato dvesantatisisdni tayo ca arupino khandha pdtubhavanti, tasnid tesam vittharena ruparupatovisati-dhammd tayo ca arupino khandha ti ete tevisati-dhammd vinndnapaccaya namarupanti veditabbd.