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The nature of transformation
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Both slickness and dryness are specific types of touch. Although they are one form each in relation to their respective kinds, they manifest in various ways due to varying degrees of transformation. The degree of variation is such that there remains an infinite difference between the lowest slickness and lowest dryness, as well as the highest slickness and highest dryness, for example, in the slickness of goat's milk and camel's milk. Both have slickness, but one has very little of it while the other has a lot. Among the results of slickness and dryness that possess degrees, the result that is the lowest, or indivisible, is referred to as the "jachanya portion." All others, except the lowest, are referred to as "jaghenyetar." Within jaghenyetar, there arise medium and excellent categories. The result with the highest slickness is excellent, while all results between the lowest and the excellent are medium. Since the excellent slickness is infinitely greater than the lowest slickness, if one were to define the lowest slickness as one portion, then the excellent slickness should be considered infinitely many portions. Up to two or three, or any number up to infinity, minus one, all portions are medium.
Here, the term "sadrisha" means that slickness binds with slickness or dryness binds with dryness, while "visadrisha" signifies that slickness binds with dryness. One portion is lowest, while one more, or two portions, is higher. When two portions are higher, it is termed "dvayadhik," and when three portions are higher, it is termed "tryadhik." Similarly, when four portions are higher, it is referred to as "chaturadhik" up to infinitely many more. "Sam" means equal number. If the number of portions on both sides is the same, it is considered sam. Two portions of jaghenyetar as sam jaghenyetar have two portions, while two portions of jaghenyetar with one more become three portions of jaghenyetar, two portions with two more become four portions of jaghenyetar, and two portions with three more become five portions of jaghenyetar, and four more develop into six portions. In this way, three and so on, up to infinitely many portions of jaghenyetar are classified as sam, higher, dvayadhik, and tryadhik. 33-35. The nature of transformation
"When bound, both samadhik and parinamika." 36.
At the time of binding, sam and higher qualities result in transformations that produce both equal and lesser qualities.
1. In the Digambara tradition, there is the sutra reading "bandhe'adhiko parinamiko cha." According to it, merging one equal with another equal is not desirable. Only merging a higher with a lesser in its own form is desirable.