Dear Rett

Many thanks for your reply.
I also prefer to take it as a bahubhiihi compound. But
what makes me uncertain is that the exegesis does not
use the usual pattern indicating a bahubhiihi, which
will include a genitive such as assa or tesa.m, while
a khammadhaaraya explanation also seems to be
reasonable, if sabhaava means thing, not nature.

The commentatry just reads,
vayadhammanti vigacchanakasabhaava.m. (CSCD Spk II
39).
But, if it is meant to be a bahubhiihi, should it not
be glossed as vigacchano sabhaavo assaati
vayadhamma.m?

metta

Tzung Kuen



--- rett <rett@...> 說：


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Hi,

>
>
>In Nikaya, khayadhamma, vayadhamma etc. are used to
>describe the five aggregates and their like. The
>commentary glosses vayadhamma with
>vigacchanakasabhaava. What does sabhaava mean here?

Is

>it a bahubhiihi compound or kammadhaaraya compound?

Based on the minimal context, it would look like a
bahubbiihi. I would read it: whose nature is X. The
gloss seems to exactly model the glossed word.
Vayadhamma is also a bahubbiihi, and vaya corresponds
to vigacchana, dhamma to sabhava. The exact meaning of
sabhava is only important insofar as it points out
which of the many meanings of dhamma is intended in
the original, i.e. whose nature is... I wouldn't
think that the use of sabhava here has any doctrinal
importance, as in asserting fixed essences of any sort
or so. This is a typical feature of this sort of
gloss: one often shouldn't attach doctrinal importance
to the words used in glossing other terms. They are
often just indicators, close enough synonyms to make
the point clear.

best regards,

/Rett



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