But like
the cripple and the blind they mutually help one another and
effectuate the changes [Footnote ref 4]. But there exists no heap or
collection of material for the production of Name and Form; "but just
as when a lute is played upon, there is no previous store of sound;
and when the sound comes into existence it does not come from
any such store; and when it ceases, it does not go to any of the
cardinal or intermediate points of the compass;...in exactly the
same way all the elements of being both those with form and
those without, come into existence after having previously been
non-existent and having come into existence pass away [Footnote ref 5]."
Namarupa taken in this sense will not mean the whole of mind and
body, but only the sense functions and the body which are found
to operate in the six doors of sense (_sa@layatana_). If we take
namarupa in this sense, we can see that it may be said to depend
upon the vinnana (consciousness). Consciousness has been compared
in the _Milinda Panha_ with a watchman at the middle of
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[Footnote 1: The word ayatana is found in many places in the earlier
Upani@sads in the sense of "field or place," Cha.
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