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unwholesome-indeterminate with indeterminate. "Three by way of object" means wholesome with wholesome, unwholesome with unwholesome, indeterminate with indeterminate. "Nine by way of dominance" means just like what was said by way of cause. Indeed, in twelve conditions, it is said "nine, nine." All the questions and answers are just like the causal condition. But there is a difference in the Exposition. In ten conditions, it is said "three, three." All the questions and answers are just like the object condition. But there is a difference in the Exposition. Indeed, in the condition of mutuality, form is also obtained in the explanation of the indeterminate term, and so in the pre-nascence condition. In the condition of repetition, neither the results nor the process-of-consciousness are obtained. In result, there is one, meaning only indeterminate. Thus, here, in brief, nine, three, one, meaning there is only a threefold division of turns. In detail, there are twelve nines, ten threes, one one, so in all twenty-four conditions, there are three hundred and thirty-nine turns, three hundred and thirty-nine. And a hundred questions. "A hundred and thirty-nine questions and answers" is also its name. 74. Thus, having shown the calculation with one root, such as the root of the causal condition, and having summarized the extensive explanation in the subsequent two-rooted conditions, etc., and taking only the calculation obtainable from the explanation shown with one root, to show the determination of turns, he first says, beginning with "In the two-rooted conditions, the causal condition and the object condition, there are three." Here is the characteristic: a condition with many counts, when combined with one with few counts, becomes one with the same count. Therefore, it is said, "The causal condition and the object condition, there are three." The meaning is that only three answers mentioned in the object condition are obtained in the causal-object pair. But one with the same count, when combined with one with the same count, becomes one with an undiminished count. Therefore, it is said, "The causal condition and the dominance condition, there are nine." The meaning is that only nine answers are obtained in the causal-dominance pair. "In the result, one" means that in the causal-result pair, only one answer mentioned in the result is obtained. Thus, the determination of turns should be understood in the two-rooted conditions. 75. The same characteristic applies to the three-rooted conditions, etc. Therefore, he says, "The causal condition, the object condition, and the dominance condition, there are three." The meaning is that only three answers mentioned in the object condition are obtained in the causal-object-dominance triad. Thus, the method should be applied everywhere. 76-79. However, in the twelve-rooted conditions, the result condition is not obtained, therefore, after saying "The repetition condition and the action, there are three," without touching upon the result, it is said "In the nutriment, there are three." The same method applies to the thirteen-rooted conditions, etc. However, only the twenty-three-rooted condition is shown here in brief. It is of two kinds: either with repetition or with result. Of these, the first, with repetition, is shown, which obtains only three answers. Therefore, it is said, "The repetition condition and the non-disappearance, there are three." But the one with result does not obtain repetition, therefore, having abandoned that, to show the calculation in terms of the result, immediately after, "The causal condition... the result condition and the nutriment, there is one," having shown one method, afterwards, the twenty-three-rooted condition itself is ten. However, among these twenty-three root-conditions, in one there is no result-condition, in one there is habituation-condition, but subsequent-arising condition exists in both. But by the established term, these should be understood as having twenty-three roots. Among these, in the habituation-condition, due to the nature of habituation, there are always only three answers everywhere, and in the result-condition, due to the nature of result-condition, there is only one. This is the calculation starting with the root-condition, in the one-root conditions and so on. Now, that which was said after the root-condition, "For one established in an object, there are always only three questions everywhere," that was said to show that, starting with the object-condition, in the one-root conditions and in the two-root conditions and so on, both in the object-factor and in the combinations of the remaining conditions with the object, where there should be nine, there are only three questions. But in the result-factor, and in the combinations of the remaining conditions with the result-factor, there is only one question. Thus, what we said below, "Even a condition with many counts, when combined with one with few counts, becomes equal in count to it," that is well said. 80-85. Now, among those one-root conditions and so on that should be shown according to the nature of the object-conditions and so on, the one-root condition is similar to the root-one-root condition, so it is not shown in even one condition. But to show the calculation of the two-root conditions according to the object-condition, it was said, "From the object-condition, three from the root, three from dominance...pe... three from non-disappearance." Here, although it should be said, "From the object-condition, three from dominance...pe... three from non-disappearance," to show the calculation that is obtained when the root-condition and other conditions, which have many counts, are compared with those with fewer counts and those with equal counts, the root-condition, which is situated in the earlier part of the object-condition, is placed in the later part, and it is said, "From the object-condition, three from the root." By this, it makes clear that the object-condition, with whichever condition of many counts or equal counts it goes into the dual-triad division and so on, everywhere there are only three question-answers. These are to be understood by people. However, in combining with result-condition, only one is obtained, which will appear in the calculation of result-condition etc., so it is not shown here. And this calculation shown for two-root conditions, the same calculation applies to three-root conditions etc., so three-root conditions etc. are not elaborated in terms of object-condition. Now, to show the calculation in two-root conditions etc. in terms of dominance-condition etc., it is said "nine with dominance-condition as cause" etc. There too, the arrangement of conditions should be understood in the manner stated. Just as there are nine with dominance-condition as cause, so too in the remaining conditions with equal counts to cause, there are nine. Thus, whichever condition stands at the beginning, in combining with equal counts, the calculation is based on what stands at the beginning. But in combining with lesser counts than that, the calculation should be understood as based on the lesser counts themselves. Just as with object-condition, so too with dominance-condition, and similarly with the immediately preceding conditions etc. after that, three-root conditions etc. are not elaborated. Therefore, it should be accomplished everywhere by the method of calculation shown in two-root conditions. Therefore, it is said, "making each condition a root, it should be calculated by the method of recitation." Explanation of Conditions in Forward Order. Conditional Arising Section. Explanation of Conditions in Reverse Order. 86-87. But since conditions in reverse order are not found in the wholesome section, because a wholesome state does not arise without cause-condition, therefore "conditioning an unwholesome state" etc. is begun. There, "not by cause-condition" means arising by a condition other than cause-condition, excluding cause-condition. For doubt-concomitant, restlessness-concomitant, delusion, this itself is cause-condition for the associated states and for mind-originated matter, but because of the absence of another associated cause, it arises not by cause-condition, but excluding cause-condition, it arises by the remaining conditions appropriate to itself. In this manner, the meaning should be understood in all exclusions of conditions. Without cause. It should be understood that the indeterminate result is known only through the arising of form. In other such cases, this is the method. 88. In the non-dominance condition, indeed, dominance does not obtain a non-dominance condition with itself, due to the absence of a second dominant factor. But just as delusion accompanied by doubt and agitation is causeless, so too are dominant factors not without dominance. However, without making any one of the desires a dominant factor, at the time of the arising of wholesome qualities, etc., all wholesome qualities, etc., are without dominance. Therefore, without extracting only the dominant factor like delusion, this teaching is given in a comprehensive manner, "Conditioned by one aggregate, three aggregates arise," and should be understood as such. 89. In the non-immediacy and non-contiguity conditions, form alone is produced by conditions, as in the non-object condition. Therefore, it is said, "Similar to the non-object condition." The co-nascent condition is diminished. And as this is, so too are the dependence, presence, and non-departure conditions. Why? Because without these, nothing arises. Indeed, not a single form or formless phenomenon arises without the co-nascent, dependence, presence, and non-departure conditions; therefore, they are diminished. 90. In the non-reciprocity condition analysis, at the moment of rebirth, the indeterminate result aggregates should be understood as the causal form, excluding the heart-base.