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In the _Sa@myutta Nikaya_ we find that the Buddha says, "O
Bhikkhus it is called rupam because it manifests (_rupyati_); how
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[Footnote 1: _Sa@myutta Nikaya_, III. 86, etc.]
[Footnote 2: _Abhidhammatthasangaha_, J.P.T.S. 1884, p. 27 ff.]
[Footnote 3: _Dhammasa@nga@ni_, pp. 124-179.]
[Footnote 4: _Atthasalini_, p. 299.]
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does it manifest? It manifests as cold, and as heat, as hunger and
as thirst, it manifests as the touch of gnats, mosquitos, wind, the
sun and the snake; it manifests, therefore it is called rupa
[Footnote ref 1]."
If we take the somewhat conflicting passages referred to above
for our consideration and try to combine them so as to understand
what is meant by rupa, I think we find that that which manifested
itself to the senses and organs was called rupa. No distinction
seems to have been made between the sense-data as colours, smells,
etc., as existing in the physical world and their appearance as
sensations. They were only numerically different and the appearance
of the sensations was dependent upon the sense-data and the senses
but the sense-data and the sensations were "rupa.
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