Controverted PointSaṁvaro kammanti? positiveĀmantā. Theravādin:If this be so, you imply that ocular self-restraint is moral action of the eye; so for the other senses—you cannot admit this … But as to self-restraint, involved in sense-control of body and in control of mind, you at first deny it to be moral action, and thenassent to the proposition that it is moral action. Why then do you not concede this for the remaining four senses? That which you admit as true for mind, the co-ordinator of sense, you must admit as true no less for the five senses.Cakkhundriyasaṁvaro cakkhukammanti? Want of self-restraint you admit of course isimmoralaction (karma): is it eye-karmawhen self-restraint is not practised by the controlling power of sight? …(proceed as in).Na hevaṁ vattabbe …pe… immoralsotindriyasaṁvaro …pe… (proceed as in).ghānindriyasaṁvaro …pe… Mahāsaṅghika:But if I am wrong, was it not said by the Exalted One:jivhindriyasaṁvaro …pe… Mahāsaṅghika:kāyindriyasaṁvaro kāyakammanti? “Here,bhikkhus, abhikkhu, when he sees an object with the eye, grasps at the general characters thereof, …”again“does not grasp at the external appearance,… when he hears a sound,… cognizes a thing with the mind,… does not grasp, etc.”?Na hevaṁ vattabbe …pe….

againKāyindriyasaṁvaro kāyakammanti? Surely both self-restraint and want of it are herein shown to be morally effective action?Āmantā. Shwe Zan AungCakkhundriyasaṁvaro cakkhukammanti? This SuttaCentral edition was prepared byManfred WierichandVen. Vimalaand proofread byJosephine Tobin. Some changes were introduced:Na hevaṁ vattabbe …pe… Manfred Wierichkāyindriyasaṁvaro kāyakammanti? Ven. VimalaĀmantā. Josephine TobinSotindriyasaṁvaro …pe… Abbreviations, i.e., those of cited works and the participants in the controversies, were expanded.Cross-references were linked.Some typographic changes were introduced, among others, i.e.: the phonetic symbol “ŋ” was changed to the Pāli diacritical letter “ṃ”, “ô” to “o”, single quotes to double quotes, and “:—” to “:”.Letter-spacing with fixed spaces was replaced with bold font.The corrigenda were merged into the text. Some could not be resolved, though.ghānindriyasaṁvaro …pe… Abbreviations, i.e., those of cited works and the participants in the controversies, were expanded.jivhindriyasaṁvaro jivhākammanti? Cross-references were linked.Na hevaṁ vattabbe …pe… Some typographic changes were introduced, among others, i.e.: the phonetic symbol “ŋ” was changed to the Pāli diacritical letter “ṃ”, “ô” to “o”, single quotes to double quotes, and “:—” to “:”.manindriyasaṁvaro manokammanti? Letter-spacing with fixed spaces was replaced with bold font.Na hevaṁ vattabbe …pe….

The corrigenda were merged into the text. Some could not be resolved, though.Manindriyasaṁvaro manokammanti? This electronic version is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 3.0 licence (CC BY-NC 3.0) as found here:http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/Āmantā. All copyright is owned by the Pali Text Society. See also the statement under http://www.palitext.com/ → Publications → Copyright Announcement. For non-commercial use only.Cakkhundriyasaṁvaro cakkhukammanti? Na hevaṁ vattabbe …pe… manindriyasaṁvaro manokammanti? Āmantā. Sotindriyasaṁvaro …pe… ghānindriyasaṁvaro … jivhindriyasaṁvaro …pe… kāyindriyasaṁvaro kāyakammanti? Na hevaṁ vattabbe …pe….

Asaṁvaro kammanti? Āmantā. Cakkhundriyaasaṁvaro cakkhukammanti? Na hevaṁ vattabbe …pe… sotindriyaasaṁvaro …pe… ghānindriyaasaṁvaro …pe… jivhindriyaasaṁvaro …pe… kāyindriyaasaṁvaro kāyakammanti? Na hevaṁ vattabbe …pe….

Kāyindriyaasaṁvaro kāyakammanti? Āmantā. Cakkhundriyaasaṁvaro cakkhukammanti? Na hevaṁ vattabbe …pe… kāyindriyaasaṁvaro kāyakammanti? Āmantā. Sotindriyaasaṁvaro …pe… ghānindriyaasaṁvaro …pe… jivhindriyaasaṁvaro jivhākammanti? Na hevaṁ vattabbe …pe… manindriyaasaṁvaro manokammanti? Na hevaṁ vattabbe …pe….

Manindriyaasaṁvaro manokammanti? Āmantā. Cakkhundriyaasaṁvaro cakkhukammanti? Na hevaṁ vattabbe …pe… manindriyaasaṁvaro manokammanti? Āmantā. Sotindriyaasaṁvaro …pe… ghānindriyaasaṁvaro …pe… jivhindriyaasaṁvaro …pe… kāyindriyaasaṁvaro kāyakammanti? Na hevaṁ vattabbe …pe….

Na vattabbaṁ—“saṁvaropi asaṁvaropi kamman”ti? Āmantā. Nanu vuttaṁ bhagavatā—“idha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu cakkhunā rūpaṁ disvā nimittaggāhī hoti …pe… na nimittaggāhī hoti, sotena saddaṁ sutvā …pe… manasā dhammaṁ viññāya nimittaggāhī hoti …pe… na nimittaggāhī hotī”ti. Attheva suttantoti? Āmantā. Tena hi saṁvaropi asaṁvaropi kammanti.

Saṁvaro kammantikathā niṭṭhitā.