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3 4 5 6 7 8 9 pt+pt pt+pts pt+ w pts+pt pts + pts pts+w w+pt w+ pts w+w
(1) 1+1 (2) 1+2 (3) 1+3 up
to ananta (4) 2+1 (5) 2+2 (6) 2+3 up
to ananta (7) 3+1 (8) 3+2 (9) 3+3 up to ananta
X
x
x
x
x
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Since 'w+w' occurs in all nine cases, it should be understood that both parties to be combined have the same dimension regardless of the number of their prade's as. It is thus understood that the cases of (1-4) and (7) exhibit the combination of two matter particles occupying one prade'sa each, the cases of (5-6) and (8) exhibit the combination of two matter particles occupying two prade'sas each, and the case of (9) exhibits the combination of two matter particles occupying three pradesas each. A two-prade'si-composite allows interpenetration of other matter substance by its part (i.e., by one pradesa), and a three-prade'si-composite upwards allow interpenetration of the other matter substance by its part and by its parts (i.e., by two pradesis upwards). This table seems to be explaining the mechanism of increase and non-increase of the dimension of things as well as the production and non-production of the shape of things following from various modes of combination of prade'sis. Such an advanced technicality in treatment must have occurred in the fourthfifth canonical stages.
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The canonical authors then discuss, in VI.10.356 whether pudgalastikaya prade'sas can be a dravya (whole) or dravya-desa (part) or otherwise in both singular and plural in the following way:
pradesa/s
4 - ananta (1) dravya (whole)
Χ Χ Χ (2) drauya-desa
X X X (3) dravyas (more than two wholes) (4) dravya-desas (5) dravya and drauya-desa (6) dravya and drauya-desas (7) dravyas and drauya-desa
Χ Χ (8) dravyas and dravya-desas This text uses the term pudgalastikaya, and its thought pattern belongs to the later stage. We would place this passage in the fourth-fifth canonical stages.
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It is mentioned in X VI.8.583 that an atom can reach the end of loka from its
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