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Ākāsānañcāyatanaṃupasampajja viharatīti ettha pana nāssa antoti anantaṃ, ākāsaṃ anantaṃ ākāsānantaṃ, ākāsānantameva ākāsānañcaṃ, taṃ ākāsānañcaṃ adhiṭṭhānaṭṭhena āyatanamassa sasampayuttadhammassa jhānassa devānaṃ devāyatanamivāti ākāsānañcāyatanaṃ.
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24. He enters upon and dwells in the base consisting of boundless space: it has no bound (anta), and thus it is unbounded (ananta). What is spatially unbounded (ākāsaṃ anantaṃ) is unbounded space (ākāsānantaṃ). Unbounded space is the same as boundless space (ākāsānañcaṃ—lit. space-boundlessness). That “boundless space” is a “base” (āyatana) in the sense of habitat for the jhāna whose nature it is to be associated with it, as the “deities’ base” is for deities, thus it is the “base consisting of boundless space” (ākāsānañcāyatana).
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