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Transformation of Matter
combination and dissociation of parts of skandha. Such skandhas also can be dvipradeśikaskandha up to anantānantapradesikaskandha. It should be understood for skandhas having more than two units that skandhas having three units, four units, etc., are formed by combination of three, four, etc.discrete ultimate atoms also. And tripradeśikaskandha can be produced by combination of an ultimate atom with dvipradeśikaskandba and catuspradeśikaskandha by combination of two or one ultimate atom with dvipradeśika or tripradeśikaskandha respectively by the gradual order.2
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An ultimate atom is not an effect of any material substance, for this reason the combination of material substance is not possible in its origination. It has been accepted as eternal; nevertheless, here its origination which is spoken of in the sutra, "Bhedadanuḥ" is explained from the point of view of paryaya (mode), i. e. an ultimate atom is eternal as substance, but it is also producible (janya) from the modal point of view. The states of its existence sometimes as a constituent element of a skandha and sometimes as a discrete atom, because of being dissociated from a skandha are its paryāyas (modes or particular conditions). The discrete state of it (visakalita avastha) originates by disintegration of a skandha for this reason, here the purport of the statement "origination of ultimate atom by a process of disintegration" is this much that an ultimate atom having the discrete state is an effect of the disintegration of a skandha, but not a pure ultimate atom."
It is further explained that imperceptible skandhas having
1. Eta eva ca sanghatabhedabhyamekasāmayikābhyāṁ dvipradeśadayaḥ skandhā utpadyante, anyasanghatenānyato bhedeneti, Ibid.
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2. TS., p. 370.
3. Bhedadeva paramāṇurutpadyate, na sanghātāditi,
TS. Bhā., p. 371;
see also the Commentary of Siddhasena Gaṇin, TS., p. 371.
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