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together or joining of ultimate atoms with material substances) throws light upon the complex system of the combination of Matter with regard to all beings from different aspects, such as, time, etc.
THE SĀMKHYA VIEW ON THE COMBI
NATION OF MATTER According to the Sāṁkhya, the process of combination of different elements of Matter is explained in the following manner : there are stated to be two classes of aggregates, viz. (1) those of which the parts are closely united and fused, being lost in the whole (ayutasiddhāvayavaḥ) and mechanical aggregates or collocations of distinct and independent parts (yutasiddbāvayavāḥ samūhāḥ).
As an aggregate of the first kind a substance may be classified into two groups, viz. the Bhutas and their 'isomeric' modifications (bhūtabheda and bhūtavikāra) and chemical compounds (militadravya samhatabbūtā rtha). The second class of the substance may be sub-divided into two group, viz. (1) those compounds of atoms of the Bhūta class, i. e. of different isomeric modification of the same Bhūta, and (ii) those compounds of atoms of different Bhūta classes. In the former there takes place the contact between 'isomeric' atoms (sajātsya-samyoga), while in the latter there occurs the contact between heterogeneous atoms (vijātIya-samyoga). The first contact brings. about the intimate combination.2 “The isomeric atoms by a peculiar liberation of energy (sajātiyopastambha--the action of similars on similars) are attracted towards one another, and being rivetted as it were, form the so-called material cause (upādānakāraṇa) of the compound product. 3 1. Sangaḥ sargākhyaḥ yaḥ samyogavišeşaḥ tenaiva dravyā
nām vikāro bhavati, Pravacanabhāsya, p. 136, Vijñānabhiksu;
See The Positive Science of the Ancient Hindus, p. 49. 2. P.S. A. H., p. 49.
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