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TENTH CHAPTER
COMBINATION OF MATTER PARTICLE
In the Jaina Āgaması it is stated that the combination of ultimate atoms takes place as a result of the chemical behaviour of the properties of matter of unequal degrees : snigdhatva (cohesiveness of attractive force), rūksatva dryness or repulsive force) and snigdhatvarūkşatva (cohesiveness-cumdrynessrattractive-cum-repulsive forces), which are inherent in both ultimate atoms and molecules having two up to infinite units. It lasts for one samaya (instant) in the minimum and innumerable times in the maximum. The two ultimate atoms combine together into a molecule because of their having the property of snehakāyatva.2 Molecules also integrate and disintegrate into two, three units, etc.?
On the basis of the Āgamic statement Umāsvāti explains the combination of matter in this manner that it takes place by virtue of the properties of cohesive and dry forces4 which are associated with them. The origination of the material aggregate (i. e. molecules) occurs only as a result of the mutual contact of unitary (discrete) ultimate atoms, etc.5 For this reason, besides the contact (samyoga), there is something else for
1. Paramānupöggalā ..vemāyaṇiddhayāe dvemāyalukkhayāe
vemāyaṇiddhalukkhayāe ..baṁdhe samuppajjai, etc., BhS., 8. 9. 345;
See also Paņņavaņā, 13, 418; Bhandhaşaţtrimśikā, p. 10. 2. Do paramāņu-poggalā egayao sāhaņāṁti donham para
** māņu poggalāņam atthi siņehakāe, Bhs., 1. 10. 80. 3. Khamihevi ya nım asāsaz sayā sa niyam uvacijjai ya
avacijjai ya, BhS., 1. 10. 80. 4. Snigdharūksatvādbandaḥ, TS.; V. 32, p. 420. 5. Snigdharūkşayoḥ pudgalayoḥ sprstayorbandho bhavati,
TS., Bhā., 5. 32, p. 420.
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