Visuddhimagga XV-25

520. Tāvatvatoti tāvabhāvato.

（四）「以限量」，即以数量而说。

Ñ(XV,25): 4. As to just so much: as just so many.

Idaṃ vuttaṃ hoti – tesu tesu hi suttābhidhammappadesesu ‘‘ābhādhātu, subhadhātu, ākāsānañcāyatanadhātu, viññāṇañcāyatanadhātu, ākiñcaññāyatanadhātu, nevasaññānāsaññāyatanadhātu, saññāvedayitanirodhadhātu’’ (saṃ. ni. 2.95), ‘‘kāmadhātu, byāpādadhātu, vihiṃsādhātu, nekkhammadhātu, abyāpādadhātu, avihiṃsādhātu’’ (vibha. 182; dī. ni. 3.305; ma. ni. 3.125), ‘‘sukhadhātu, dukkhadhātu, somanassadhātu, domanassadhātu, upekkhādhātu, avijjādhātu’’ (vibha. 180; ma. ni. 3.125), ‘‘ārambhadhātu, nikkamadhātu, parakkamadhātu’’ (saṃ. ni. 5.183), ‘‘hīnadhātu, majjhimadhātu, paṇītadhātu’’ (dī. ni. 3.305), ‘‘pathavīdhātu, āpodhātu, tejodhātu, vāyodhātu (dī. ni. 3.311), ākāsadhātu, viññāṇadhātu’’ (ma. ni. 3.125; vibha. 172), ‘‘saṅkhatadhātu, asaṅkhatadhātu’’ (ma. ni. 3.125), ‘‘anekadhātu nānādhātu loko’’ti (dī. ni. 2.366; ma. ni. 1.148) evamādayo aññāpi dhātuyo dissanti.

在各种的经与论中，亦曾说到十八界以外的其它诸界，如：光明界、净界、空无边处界、识无边处界、无所有处界、非想非非想处界、想受灭处界、欲界、恚界、害界、出离界、无恚界、无害界、乐界、苦界、喜界、忧界、舍界、无明界、精进界、勤界、勤勇界、劣界、中界、胜界、地界、水界、火界、风界、空界、识界、有为界、无为界、多界、种种界的世间。

Ñ: What is meant is this: in various places in the Suttas and Abhidhamma the following as well as other [486] elements are met with—the illumination element, beauty element, base-consisting-of-boundless-space element, base-consisting-of-boundless-consciousness element, base-consisting-of-nothingness element, base-consisting-of-neither-perception-nor-non-perception element, cessation-of-perception-and-feeling element (S.ii,150); sense-desire element, ill-will element, cruelty element, renunciation element, non-ill-will element, non-cruelty element (Vbh. 86); bodily-pleasure element, bodily-pain element, joy element, grief element, equanimity element, ignorance element (Vbh. 85); initiative element, launching element, persistence element (S.v,66); inferior element, medium element, superior element (D.iii,215); earth element, water element, fire element, air element, space element, consciousness element (Vbh. 82); formed element, unformed element (M.iii,63); the world of many elements, of various elements (M.i,70)

Evaṃ sati sabbāsaṃ vasena paricchedaṃ akatvā kasmā aṭṭhārasāti ayameva paricchedo katoti ce. Sabhāvato vijjamānānaṃ sabbadhātūnaṃ tadantogadhattā.

（问）既然这样，为什么不以一切界为限而只以此十八界为限呢？（答）因为所存的一切界，从自性上说，都可以含摄于此十八界之中的缘故。

Ñ: —that being so, why is the classification only made according to these eighteen instead of making it according to all of them? Because as far as individual essence is concerned all existing elements are included in that [classification].