. Dhammaniyāmatā

This term is used to denote the natural law.

 

“üppAdA vA tathAgatAnaM anuppAdA vA tathAgatAnaM Thithava sA dhatu dhammadiTThastate, dhammaniyAmatA idhapaccayatA.”

                                                                                                    (Paccayasutta, SN)

=When Buddhas are born and not there is that element of existence of things, the order of things, and the causality.

According to the nature of the world what the Buddha explained to the people is not something invented by the Buddha but reality is explained as it is. That natural order of things is meant by the term ‘∂hammaniyAmatA’.