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soul are received by it (877[16]). These particles are received by the concerned units of soul. Hence it is said that the particles which are not separated from the concerned units of soul by the intervening points and which are either atomic? or gross are received by the soul. Those particles that are separated from the concerned units of soul by intervening space-points are not received by the soul (877[17-18]). Again, the material-particlesof-the-form-of-spoken-language are in the upward direction or in the downward direction or in the horizontal direction. And they are received in the beginning or in the middle or in the end of the duration for which they are amenable to reception (877 [19-20]). The particles that are not separated from the units of soul by spatial gap are received from all the six directions by the soul according to their spatial order (877 [21-23]).
The material-particles-of-the-form-of-spoken-language are received incessantly or intermittently. When a speaker does not speak continuously, there are intervals in the process of reception of particles. Hence this reception is called intermittent reception. But when he speaks continuously for a specific duration of time, he receives the particles incessantly. Hence this reception is known as incessant reception. Here we should note some points. In the first moment of the process there is reception only because there is no possibility of expulsion in this moment. But in the second moment both the reception and the expulsion become possible. It is so because in this second moment the particles received in the first moment are expelled out and at the same time new particles that are to be expelled out in the third moment are received. Thus in all the moments intervening between the first and the last both reception and expulsion take place. In the last moment there is only expulsion but no reception (878-879).
7. In 877 [3] it is clearly stated that the material aggregate which is
amenable to reception is ananta-pradesi (i.e. constituted of ananta pradeśas-atoms) whereas here we are told that even anus are received. But let us note that there is no contradiction between the two statements. It is so because the term 'anu is here used not in the sense of an atom but in the sense of an aggregate occupying pradeśas (spacepoints) less in number than the pradeśas (atoms) of which it is constituted'. And the term bādara aggregate' means "an aggregate occupying pradeśas (space-points) comparatively more in number than the pradeśas (atoms) of which it is constituted'. Prajñāpanātika
folio 263 B. 8. They are amenable to reception for the period of an antarmuhurta. And
hence we are required to understand that they are received in the beginning, or in the middle or in the end of an antarmuhūrta only.
Prajñāpanátika, folio 263. 9. On the basis of Viśeşāvaśyakabhāşya (gå. 371) Āc. Malayagiri in his
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