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The Concept of Matter in Jaina Philosophy
On receiving them, Soul transforms its own gross body. For this reason these aggregates are called audārika vargapā. But this vargaņā is the most minimum of all the receivable vargaņās of the gross body. In addition to it, there being an increase of ultimate atom by the gradual order of one unit (pradeśa), the first, the second, the third, the fourth, the fifth, etc., upto infinite varganās of skandhas become grāhya vargaņās (receivable classes) of the gross body. Therefore, the receivable maximum varganās of the gross body becomes more by the infiniteth part than the receivable minimum varganās of the gross body. In this infiniteth part there are infinite ultimate atoms. So the vargaņās from the minimum to the maximum should known as the grāhya vargaņās (receivable classes) of the gross body.
In addition to the maximum vargaņā of the gross body, the varganās of skandhas which are formed as a result of the increase of ultimate atoms by the order of one unit (pradeśa) to each of them are firstly possessed of more number of units of ultimate atoms than that of the gross body on the one hand; secondly they are fine; therefore, they become grāhya vargaņās (receivable classes) of the gross body. And they are having less number of units of ultimate atoms and are grosser than skandhas of which the transformable-body (vaikriyika śarsra) is formed. Therefore, they are not capable of being received by the transformable body. Thus ananta vargaņās (infinite classes) of skandhas, because of there being an increase of ultimate atoms by the order of one unit (of ultimate atom) to each of them in addition to the maximum vargaņā of the gross body (audārika śarīra), become unfit to be received (i, e, non-receivable). As for example, the maximum vargaņās of the gross body is more by infiniteth part than its receivable minimum vargaņās. Similarly, the nonreceivable miximum varganā should be known to be infinite times more (i. e. having infinitefold ultimate atoms) than the non-receivable minimum vargaņā. In this way the receivable vargaņās are alternately placed, i. e. there comes the non
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