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Idha bhikkhu atthi imasmiṃ attabhāve cakkhudhātu - pe - manoviññāṇadhātūti dhātuyo āvajjitvā yaṃ loko setakaṇhamaṇḍalavicittaṃ āyatavitthataṃ akkhikūpake nhārusuttakena ābaddhaṃ maṃsapiṇḍaṃ "cakkhū"ti sañjānāti, taṃ aggahetvā khandhaniddese upādārūpesu vuttappakāraṃ cakkhupasādaṃ "cakkhudhātū"ti vavatthapeti.
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Here a bhikkhu considers the elements thus: “There are in this person the eye element, … the mind-consciousness element.” Instead of taking the piece of flesh variegated with white and black circles, having length and breath, and fastened in the eye socket with a string of sinew, which the world terms “an eye,” he defines as “eye element” the eye sensitivity of the kind described among the kinds of derived materiality in the Description of the Aggregates (XIV.47).
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