Path of Freedom [Vimuttimagga]

244 Vimuttimaggaproduces fifty material qualities, namely, (all) except the eye-faculty-decadand the masculinity or femininity-decad. A person who is neither a male nora female and who is deaf arouses fifty material qualities, namely, (all) exceptthe ear-decad and masculinity or femininity. A person who is neither a malenor a female, and is blind and deaf, arouses forty material qualities, namely,the basis-decad, the body-decad, the nose-decad and the tongue-decad. Brahmaarouses forty-nine material qualities at the moment of birth. They are thebasis-decad, the eye-decad, the ear-decad, the body-decad and the life-principleennead.The beings of the divine-plane of inconscience arouse nine materialqualities at the moment of birth, namely, the life-principle-ennead. Thusone should know through birth.MATERIAL QUALITIES BY WAY OF DIVERSITY,—GROUPS OF TWO IN MATERIAL QUALITIESQ. How, through diversity? A. All material qualities are of twokinds. They are gross or subtle. Here, twelve material qualities are gross,because internal and external material sense-objects are seized through impact.The other eighteen material qualities are subtle, because they are not seizedthrough impact. And again, there are two kinds of material qualities. Theyare internal and external. Here, five material qualities are internal, becausethe five sense-organs of eye and others are limited. The other thirty-fivematerial qualities are external matter, because they are not limited. Andagain, there are two kinds. They are faculty and non-faculty. 1 Here eightmaterial qualities are faculty. They are the five internals (possibly, fivesentient organs), the faculty of femininity, of masculinity and life; they areso because of dependence. The other twenty-two are non-faculty, becausethey are non-dependent. 2GROUPS OF THREE IN MATERIAL QUALITIESAll material qualities can be divided into three hinds. They are nonmaterialqualities and arrested material qualities. 3 Here nine material qualitiesare feeling. They are the eight faculties and the material basis, because theyare produced owing to kamma-result. Nine material qualities are the senseobjectof sound, body-intimation, speech-intimation, buoyancy of matter,impressibility of matter, workability of matter, decay of matter, impermanencyof matter and torpidity. These are not produced throughJcamma-rQs\x\L The other twelve material qualities are breakable ones becausethey have two kinds of significance (?). And again, material qualities areof three kinds: visible and reacting, invisible and reacting and invisible and1. Lit. Life-faculty and non-life-faculty.2. Cp. Dhs. 125-27, para. 585.3. Lit. Having broken material qualities.