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[227 The plural is used to indicate the infinite varieties of these two categories. The terms 'anu' and 'skandha' are used to denote these varieties, as explained earlier.
Anus are those that have touch, taste, smell, and color. Skandhas, on the other hand, are those that have sound, bond, subtlety, grossness, form, difference, shadow, heat, and radiance, as well as touch, etc.
8575. It is asked, whether the transformation of these pudgalas into the forms of anu and skandha is beginningless or has a beginning? It is asserted that it has a beginning because it is produced. If so, then tell us from what cause it is produced? In order to explain the cause of the production of skandhas, the following sutra is stated:
They are produced from the combination of differences. ||26|| 8576. The division of combinations due to the cause of duality is called difference. The coming together of separate entities is called combination. But there are two things, difference and combination, so the sutra should be in the dual number. The plural is used to indicate the inclusion of three. This means that skandhas are produced from difference, combination, and both difference and combination. For example, from the combination of two atoms, a two-region skandha is produced. From the combination of a two-region skandha and an atom, or from the combination of three atoms, a three-region skandha is produced. From the combination of two two-region skandhas, a three-region skandha and an atom, or from the combination of four atoms, a four-region skandha is produced. In this way, from the combination of countable, uncountable, infinite, and infinitely infinite atoms, skandhas with that many regions are produced. And from the difference of these same countable, etc., atoms, skandhas up to the two-region skandha are produced. In the same way, from the difference and combination that occur at the same time, 1. Third - Mu. 2. -khyeyanantaanam cha sangha- ta., Na. 3. Bhedadviprade- ta., A., Di. 1, Di. 2.