18. No dharma can be grasped nor can it be taught by words because no one (from srota-āpanna ... up to arhat) can grasp a fruit as one’s own (on account of the true nature of everything being asaṃskṛta, asaṃskṛtaprabhāvita, and of the erroneous implications of an eventual assumption that there is a partaker in that fruit like the ātman etc.] Since he is free of both impediments (the moral defilements and the intellectual defilements), in Subhūti both kinds of defilement are absent (araṇa, as is stated at p. 26, l. 12).
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This statement seems to contradict the other contained in some scriptures that Śākyamuni received the Law from Dīpaṃkara. In fact such a contradiction does not exist, because, as the sūtra tells us, p. 26, l. 18, there is no doctrine which the Buddha received from Dīpamkara.