Phassa

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Phassa, Phassaharo

PTS: The Book of the Gradual Sayings, V: The Book of the Tens, The Great Chapter, The Great Questions, Woodward, trans., pp36ff

Pali	MO	Hare	Horner	Punnaji	Bodhi	Nanamoli	Rhys Davids	(Mrs)Rhys Davids	Thanissaro	Walshe	Woodward
phassa	Touch, contact	Contact	sensory impingement	sense experience	contact	contact	contact	contact	contact	contact	contact (of sense)

**Pali Text Society, Pali English Dictionary (edited entry):**
Phassa: [cp. Ved. sparsa, of sp.r.s: see phusati] contact, touch (as sense or sense-impression, for which usually phoÂÂhabba¸). It is the fundamental fact in a sense impression, and consists of a combination of the sense, the object, and perception, as expld at M I.111: ti¼¼a¸ (i. e. cakkhu, r¬p¤, cakkhu-vi¾¾¤¼a) sangati phasso; and gives rise to feeling: phassa-paccay¤ vedan¤. (See paÂicca-samupp¤da & for expln Vism 567...). - Cp. D I.42 sq.; III.228, 272, 276; Vism 463 (phusat¨ ti phasso)...; J V.441 (r¤j¤ dibba-phassena puÂÂho touched by the divine touch, i. e. fascinated by her beauty; puÂÂho=phutto)... -¤yatana organ of contact (6, referring to the several senses) PvA 52. -¤h¤ra "touch-food," acquisition by touch, nutriment of contact, one of the 3 aharas, viz. phass, mano-sa¾cetana (n. of representative cogitation) and vi¾¾a* (of intellection)...; one of the 4 kinds of ahara, or "food"... -k¤y¤ (6) groups of touch or contact vîz. cakkhu-samphasso, sota, ghana, kaya, mano D III.243. -sampanna endowed with (lovely) touch, soft, beautiful to feel J V.441...
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^[M.I.111] Horner, trans: (Maha Kassapa is speaking): "Visual consciousness [cakkhu-vi¾¾¤¼a], your reverences, arises because of eye and material shapes; the meeting of the three is semsory impingement [phassa]; feelings are because of sensory impingement..."