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binding one atom with another called bandhana-pratyay ikabandha, due to being kept in a pot called bhājana-pratyayikabandha, due to transformation called parināma-pratyayika-bandha. As to bandhana-pratyayika-bandha we have the following coup'ets which may be deserving of scientific test :
समणिद्धयाए बंधो ण होइ समलुक्खयाए वि ण होइ। ..
वेमायणिद्धलुक्खत्तणेण बंधो उ खंधाणं ॥ १॥ . णिद्धस्स णिर्तण दुयाहियेणं लुक्खस्स लुक्खेण दुवाहिएणं । णिद्धस्स लुक्खेण उवेइ बंधो जहण्ण वज्जो विसमो समो वा ॥२॥
Roughly, the point is that two atoms with the same sap or same roughness do not bind. They bind with each other only when these are similar, and so on.
Q. 289. The word amohana refers to a type of formation caused by the rays of the rising and setting sun.
Q. 315. The word khuddägabhava means the shortest stay in one's own body/ species. The finest nigoda has 65536 stays in less than a nuhurta and as many as 17 in a single respiration.
Q. 321. The terms anantam kälam, anantā logā, asamkhejjā poggala-pariyatta āvalik äye asamkhejjaibhāgo, etc., are more or less indicative of a secular period, expressed in terms of timeunits, space or matter, even vanaspati. The Jaina calculation is as follows: : Ten kota-koti addha palyopan a makes one sägaropoma.
Ten kota-koti sāgaropamas make one up-phase of timecycle.
Another ten kotā-koti sāgaropamas make one dow'n.pbase.
An infinite number of up and down phases make one pudgala-parāvartana.
An avalika consists of an inpumerable number of time. units called samaya.
