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.
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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 (Vibh 86); bodily-pleasure element, bodily-pain element, joy element, grief element, equanimity element, ignorance element (Vibh 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 (Vibh 82); formed element, unformed element (M III 63); the world of many elements, of various elements (M I 70)—
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