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Classification of Matter
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The five kinds of bodies - audārika (gross) upto kārmaņa (karmic body) are finer by the successive order; nevertheless, the use of ultimate atoms is made more and more in their respective formations. As for instance, though cotton, wood, earth, stone and iron are accepted in some particular magnitude or quality (parimāna), still the size of wood is smaller than that of cotton, that of earth is smaller than that of wood, that of stone is smaller than that of earth and that of iron is smaller than that of stone. But these things, even being smaller in size from one another, are more solid and heavy by the successive order. Just like that the account of the five bodies should be understood. The reason is this that pudgalavargaņās of which the gross body is formed are having less number of ultimate atoms like cotton, but they are gross in size ; pudgalavargaņās of which the transformable body is constituted are having more number of ultimate atoms than that of pudgala-vargaņā fit to be gross body like wood, but they are less in size. In this way the account of the bodies should be known according to the successive order. It means that the number of ultimate atoms increases more and more in the cases of successive varganās, but their size becomes finer and finer. That is to say, as there takes place a combination of more ultimate atoms, so there occur their finer and finer transformations successively. Therefore, the immersion of audārikavargaņās is innumerableth part of a cubic finger and that of its non-receivable varganā is also innumerableth part of one cabic finger, but the innumerableth part of this cubic finger is less than the previous one. Like this the immersion of vaikriyika-grahaņavargaņā also is the innumerableth part of a cubic finger, but this innumerableth part is less than the innu
1. Param param sūkşmam, pradeśato asamkheyagunań
prāk tejasāt, TS., 2. 38, 39; Anantagune pare, Ibid., 2.40; Apratighāte, Ibid., 2.41 The closeness of atoms makes the body compact and solid by virtue of cohesion according to the physical sciences.
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