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NINTH CHAPTER
TRANSFORMATION OF MATTER
(PUDGALA-PAR IŅĀMA) Matter (Pudgala) undergoes transformation ; there takes place the external and internal transformations in its attributes. The change in the character of the qualities of a substance is pariņāma (transformation)? which is brought about by the applied process or the natural process without giving up its own class or nature 2 Generally an attainment of another state by giving up one state is called pariņāma. No substance is absolutely permanent by any means nor is it destroyable by all means, for this reason, it is proper to admit pariņāma of each substance.3 From this point of view it is beginningless and is having a beginning also.4 As for instance, parināma of Matter is ādimat (having a beginning);5 an ultimate atom undergoes two kinds of pariņāma, viz. gatipariņāma (transformation of motion) and guņapariņāma (transformation of quality). An ultimate atom having equal guna will transform another ultimate atom having equal but dissimilar guna because of its combination with another ultimate atom or molecule. An ultimate atom having higher degrees of guņas (qualities)
1. Pariņāmo avasthāntaragamanam na ca sarvathā hyavasthā
nań, na ca sarvathā vināśaḥ pariņāmastadvidābhistaḥ
vide Syādvādmañjari, p. 205. 2. Dravyasya svajātyaparityāgena prayogavisrasālaksaņo vikā
raḥ pariņāmaḥ RV., 5. 22. 10. 3. Pariņāmo avasthāntaragamanam na ca sarvathā hyavasthā
nam na ca sarvathā vināśaḥ pariņāmastadvidabhistaḥ,
Syādvädmañjarl, p. 205. 4. Anādirādimāṁśca, TS., ch. V. 43. 5. Rūpisvādimān, TS., ch. V. 43.
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