Disclaimer: This translation does not guarantee complete accuracy, please confirm with the original page text.
Chapter 3-35
237 Both smoothness and roughness are distinct qualities of touch. Although they are single forms concerning the kind of sweetness of the father and mother, they manifest in various ways due to their immediate nature. The differentiation extends to such an extent that there are infinite distinctions between inferior smoothness and roughness and superior smoothness and roughness. For example, there is a difference in the smoothness of the milk of a goat and that of a cow. Both possess smoothness, yet one has much less and the other has significantly more. In the results of immediate smoothness and roughness, the result that is the most inferior or indivisible is termed the lowest aspect; all results other than the lowest are called less inferior. Recently, medium and superior numbers occur. The smoothness result that is the greatest is superior; and all those results that lie between the lowest and the superior are medium. In terms of inferior smoothness, superior smoothness is infinitely more due to the greater quality, and the inferior smoothness that is referred to as one aspect should be understood in the context of superior smoothness as having infinite distinctions. The understanding should encompass all aspects, including two, three, numerically limited, infinite, and one which pertains to the superior, categorized as medium. Here, the term "saman" implies a binding with the premium (the good quality) or rough with the rough, while "visadan" indicates the binding of smoothness with roughness. One aspect that is inferior along with one more aspect, i.e., two aspects.