Visuddhimagga XIV-35

Tattha bhūtarūpaṃ catubbidhaṃ – pathavīdhātu āpodhātu tejodhātu vāyodhātūti.

此中的「大种色」，即地界、水界、火界、风界的四种。

Ñ(XIV,35): Herein (a) primary materiality is of four kinds as the earth element, water element, fire element, and air element.

Tāsaṃ lakkhaṇarasapaccupaṭṭhānāni catudhātuvavatthāne vuttāni.

它们的相、味及现起，已在「四界差别」中说过；

Ñ: Their characteristic, function, and manifestation have been given under the definition of the four elements (Ch. XI, §§87, 93);

Padaṭṭhānato pana tā sabbāpi avasesadhātuttayapadaṭṭhānā.

而说它们的足处（直接因），则它们都以（自己以外的）其余三界为足处。[PTS 444]

Ñ: but as to the proximate cause, each has the other three as its proximate cause. [444]