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fabric merely by collection of white and black fibres. Thus, there will be no bonding proper. Supplementary Notes (5.33-36) 1. The commentary deals with the following points with reference to atomic or mattergic bonding in the aphorisms 5.33-36. They are being dealt with together here : (a) There are four rules of atomic bonding: (i) The bonding takes place between the entities which have opposite electrical characters (positive or negative as per 5.24). These have quantitative values. (However, we do not find any details about them). (ii) There can be no bonding between entities which have quantitatively minimum of the electrical charges which is generally one (or zero ?). Thus 1* and 1 or 1*and 2 or 2* etc. and 1 may not combine. (iii) There can be no bonding between the entities- (a) which have similar charges with similar intensity (b) which have dissimilar charges with similar intensity i.e. there is no bonding when the entities are 2*, 2* or 2 and 2 etc. (iv) There is bonding between two entities when their similar or dissimilar charges differ by two units. For example, there will be bonding between C+ C**** ----> C.C : C*** + C***** ----> C.C. C" + ---->C.C : CTM + C**** ----> C.C
C++ + C*---->C.C (b) The commentary mentions the charges in terins of smoothness and roughness where comparative numerical quality can be judged on the basis of some common examples in increasing order as shown in the text. On the basis of the common examples, we have different qualitative and quaanitative characters of charges in different atoms and bonding entities. The 5.24 has already mentioned the electrical nature of these terms. 2. P.C. Shastri has given a table to summarise the bonding rules as per this commentary as below:
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