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THI JAINA PHILOSOPHY
are responsible for the fission and fusion of material objects First, there are forces which biod together the atoms of different elements into complex molecules of innumerable chemical compounds, and are the interaction of electronic shells of the component atoms Then there is repulsive electrical force in the nucleus, known as the coulomb force And finally there are the cohesive forces which are many times greater and which act as the cosmic cement preventing the breaking up of the nucleus of an atom under the action of coulomb force The qualities snigdha and ruksha sparsa, according to the Jain view play the most important role in the synthesis of different paramūnus for the formation of atoms, molecules and small and large objects of matter The intensity of these two primary qualities varies from a single unit to infinite units in different paramānus-that is at a given moment some purumamus-have z single unit of unctuousness some are with two units some with three and so on upto infinity At the same time there will be some paranáms with a singleunit of dryness, some with two units and so on upto infinity A summary of the rules in respect of the synthesis of different parannanus is as under 1 Synthesis of parumānus having single units of
dryness or unctuousness is not possible either with one another or with paramānus of higher intensi
ties 2 Synthesis of paranānus having two or more units
of dryness is possible with other dry paramūnus provided there is a difference of two or more units between them Similarly mutual synthesis of unctuous paramānus is possible only if the difference of their intensities is the or more units
