In the description of "with contact as condition, feeling",
The feelings named by way of door
as born of eye contact and so on
Are only six; still they are held
to be of nine-and-eighty kinds.
(So Vis 566 but cf. PsA 363; NdA 228)
By the words "mind
eye?-contact-born feeling" and so on in the Pāli, only these six kinds of feeling are stated as eye-contact born and so on according to the doors.
Still, when classed according to association with the 89 kinds of consciousness, "they are held to be of nine-and eighty kinds".
However, from among these feelings
only the two-and thirty kinds
Associated with result
should here be taken as intended
Herein, contact is condition
in five doors for the five in eight ways,
And in one way for the rest.
In the mind door it is the same.
Herein, in the five doors, contact beginning with eye contact is a condition in eight ways, as conascence, mutuality, support, result, nutriment, association, presence and non-disappearance conditions, for the five kinds of feeling, which have as their basis the eye-sensitivity, etc.
But the contact beginning with eye contact is a condition in one way only, as decisive support, for the rest of resultant feeling of the sense sphere occurring in each door through acceptance, investigating and registration.
"In the mind door it is the same" means that contact called conascent mind contact is also a condition in the same eight ways for the kinds of resultant feeling of the sense sphere occurring as registration in the mind door; and so also for the kinds of resultant feeling of three planes occurring with rebirth-linking, life-continuum and death.
But mind contact associated with mind-door adverting is a condition in one way only, as decisive support condition, for the sense-sphere feelings which occur in the mind door as registration.
This is the description of "with contact as condition, feeling".