Vedana

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Vedan¤, Tisso vedan¤

The Three Sensations

Rhys Davids Introduction to their translation of the Satipatthana Sutta, and the translation itself

Puremind, M. Punnaji, Awakening Meditation, 1-13, 1-15, 3-12, 4-3, 4-6, 6-8, 7-6,7, 7-11, 7-16, 8-52, 8-60, 8-61, 8-86

Wisdom Publicatiions, The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, Bhikkhu Nanamoli and Bhikkhu Bodhi, #10: The Foundations of Mindfulness, pp 145

Wisdom Publications, The Long Discourses of the Buddha, Maurice Walshe, #22: The Greater Discourse on the Foundations of Mindfulness, pp335

Pali Text Society, Middle Length Sayings I, #10: Discourse on the Applications of Mindfulness, Horner, pp70

PTS: Dialogs of the Buddha III, #33: The Recital, T.W. and C.A.F. Rhys Davids, trans., pp201

WP: The Long Discourses of the Buddha, #33: The Chanting Together, M. Walshe, trans., pp479

PTS: The Middle Length Sayings, I, #10: Applications of Mindfulness, Horner, trans., pp78

WP: The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, #10: The Foundations of Mindfulness, Bhikkhu Nanamoli and Bhikkhu Bodhi, trans., pp152

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

PTS: The Book of the Kindred Sayings, V: Kindred Sayings on the Way: ix: Feeling, Woodward, trans., pp19

PTS: The Book of the Gradual Sayings, III: The Book of the Sixes, ix:#63: A penetrative discourse, Hare, trans, pp292

Pali	MO	Nyanasatta Thera	Hare	Horner	Punnaji	Bodhi	Nanamoli	Rhys Davids	(Mrs)Rhys Davids	Thanissaro	Walshe	Woodward	Soma Thera	Nyanaponika Thera
vedana	sensation	feelings	feeling	feeling	sensation	feelings	feelings	feelings	feelings, modes of feelings	feelings, moods	feelings	feeling	feeling	feeling
Sukhavedan¤	pleasant		feeing of ease	pleasurable feeling	pleasant sensation	pleasant feeling	pleasant feeling	ease, pleasant feeling	pleasant feeling	good moods, ease, well-being	pleasant feeling	pleasant feeling	pleasant feeling	pleasant
dukkha vedan¤	Painful Ugly Ukky K-kha; Pain; shit; unpleasant sensation		Ill, feeling of ill	anguish, painful feeling	Unease	suffering, unpleasant sensation, painful feeling	Suffering, painful feeling	Ill, painful feeling, mal-aise	Ill, Sorrow, painful feeling	suffering, bad moods, depression, sorrow, annoyance or discouragement	Suffering, painful feeling	Ill, painful feeling	painful feeling	unpleasant (painful)
adukkha-m-asukh¤ vedan¤	not-pleasant-but-not-unpleasant		feeling of neither ill nor ease	neither painful nor pleasant	neutral sensation	neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling	neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling	neutral feeling	neutral feeling	(uses upekkha-vedana) neutral moods	neither (pleasant, painful)	neither pleasant nor painful	neither-pleasant-nor-painful	neutral

**Pali Text Society, Pali English Dictionary (edited entry):**
Vedan¤:(f.) [fr. ved: see vedeti; cp. Epic Sk. vedan¤] feeling, sensation (see on term, e. g. Cpd. 14 Mrs. Rh. D. B. Psy., ch. iv.) D I.45; II.58 (cp. Dial. II.54), 66; III.58, 77, 221, 228, 238 (up¤dan¤); S III.86 sq.; A I.39, 122, 141; II.79, 198, 256; III.245 sq., 450; IV.301, 385;...-- Three modes of feeling (usually understood whenever mention is made of "tisso vedan¤"): sukh¤ (pleasant), dukkh¤ (painful) adukkha-m-asukh¤ (indifferent) D III.275; S II.53, 82; IV.207; A III.400...-- Five vedan¤s: sukha¸, dukkha¸, somanassa¸, domanassa¸, upekkh¤ Vism 461. Categories of 2 to 108 modes of Vedana, S IV.223 sq. --vedan¤ is one of the 5 khandhas. -- On relation of old and new sensations (pur¤¼a* nava*) see e. g. A II.40; III.388; IV.167; Vism 33...-- In the PaÂiccasamupp¤da (q. v.) vedan¤ stands between phassa as condition and ta¼h¤ as result; see e. g. Vism 567 sq. 2. (in special application) painful sensation, suffering, pain (i. e. dukkha-vedan¤) M I.59; A I.153 (s¤r¨rik¤ bodily pain); II.116 (id.); III.143 (id.)...--vedan' aÂÂa afflicted y pain Vin II.61; III.100; J I.293. -- As adj. vedana suffering or to be suffered Pv III.106 (=anubhuyam¤na PvA 214).

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This is how Vedana fits into the Paticca Samuppada: Downbound, The Six-fold Sense Realm rebounds bound up in Contact (PHASSA: touch)
Downbound Contact Rebounds bound up in Sense Experience (VEDANA).
Downbound Sense Experience Rebounds Bound up in Hunger/Thirst (TANHA wanting)

Or, according to the "Backwards-up" methodology:
Could there be any kind of wanting (wanting to get pleasure, wanting to end pain, wanting to live, wanting to live again, wanting to end living) if there were no experience of sensations of pleasure or pain or neither pleasure nor pain at any one of the six organs of sense?
No, there could not be any kind of wanting if there were no experience of sensations of pleasure, pain or neither pleasure nor pain at any one (or more) of the six organs of sense.
Therefore Wanting arises dependant on Sense Experience.
Could there be any Experience of Pleasure or Pain or neither Pleasure nor pain at any of the six organs of sense if there were no contact of any kind by any organ of sense with any object of sense?
No, there could not be any experience of pleasure or pain or neither pleasure nor pain at any of the six sense organs if there were no contact by any organ with any object.
Therefore Sense Experience arises dependant on Contact.