BOtika
bhautika , ( adj. ?) subst. nt. ( cf. Skt. id. ; here in specialized mgs. ), ( 1 ) possibly adj. , real or material , in Laṅk 17.5 , but the reading is very doubtful and the sense at least equally so, see s.v. abhauti and below; ( 2 ) subst. nt. , object of sense : in Dharmas 40 = viṣaya or indriyārtha (five are listed: rūpa, śabda, gandha, rasa, and sparśa, corresponding, tho in different order, to the five mahābhūtāni listed in 39 just before). Acc. to Suzukiʼs Index to Laṅk , the Chin. versions of Laṅk indicate bhautika = the [Page413-a] 4 viṣaya or color, odor, flavor, contact (note omission of sound , and the fact that in Laṅk 124.8 ākāśa is added only parenthetically; cf. the 4 dhātu of Pali , paṭhavī-, āpo-, tejo-, vāyo-dhātu, Childers , s.v. ); in Laṅk 205.10 (omit bhūta-with 2 mss. ) bhautika-svalakṣaṇa-vināśānupalabdhir, evidently products of the bhūtāni , presumably as in Dharmas 40 . The passage Laṅk 123.11—124.16 must, it seems, somehow be interpreted in the light of these passages, but is obscure to me ( cf. also Laṅk 355.1 ). Suzuki is not very helpful on it; e.g. 124.13 na tu mahābhūtānām certainly cannot mean which (primary elements) are non-existent , but rather: (the mahābhūtāni are the causes of the bhautikāni), but not (the bhautikāni) of the mahābhūtāni , i.e. but not vice versa . In Mvy 1847 bhautika-rūpam appears to be parallel and complementary to 1846 upādāya-rūpam , q.v. ; this suggests that bhautikarūpam = Pali bhūta-rūpa ( Childers and PTSD s.v. rūpa), which acc. to Vism. = the four mahābhūtāni, earth, water, fire, and air (listed Mvy 1838—1841 ), contrary to Dharmas and the Chin. as cited by Suzuki , above; for the viṣayas are included among the 24 upādā(ya)-rūpa of Pali . On the basis of Mvy 1846—7 we might conjecture that in Laṅk 17.5 (see abhauti ) abhautika = upādāya(-rūpam), and bhautika = bhautika ( Pali bhūta)-rūpam. But if Dharmas and Chin. are right, bhautika would mean virtually the opposite of Pali bhūta(-rūpa).