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The Concept of Matter in Jaina Philosophy
THE BUDDHIST VIEW ON THE COMBINA
TION OF MATTER
In the uddhist Philosophy the process of combination andet dissociation of particles of matters are not clearly dealt with as is treated in other Indian systems of thought. Nevertheless, it is implied from the Buddhist conception of sanghātaparamānus (combined atoms) like saptadravyaka, astadra vyaka, navadravyaka and daśadravyaka, and kalāpa that the atoms of earth, water, fire and air and the atoms of colour and shape, sound, odour, taste and tangible cannot "appear independently without being combined with the fundamental ones, in the ratio of four atoms of primary matter to one of secondary."1 So the minimum number of four atoms of general materiality integrated with each atoms of colour, odour, taste and secondary tangibility-matter is necessary "for their actual appearance in life."2 In the case of particular piece of matter resounded, atoms of sound being added to it make the combination
Prakṣtisușiratayaiva āryadravyasya ghatādeḥ ārambhāt antastejaḥ kanānupraveśakstapākopapatteḥ alam vināśakal. panayā, pitharapākapaksa eva pesalaḥ, NM., (Bhuta-Caitanya-Pūrvvapakşa); Ye bijāvayavāste pūrbbavyūhaparityāgena vyūhāntaramā. padyante vyūbāntarāpattu ca pệthividhāturabdhātunā samgļhita’antareņa tejasā pacyamāno rasadravyam nirvarttayati sa rasaḥ pārbbāvayasahito' ankurādibhāvamāpadyate, paramāņvavasthāni bijāni bhavanti iti etanna pratipadyamāne, yasmācchālyādibijamucchūnāvasthāmādiņi kṛtvā yāvadupāatyam śālibijakāryam tāvanna kadācit para māņvavasthani bhavati, yadi tu syāt kadācit nopalabhyeta, Udyotakara, chap. III. Āhnika, 1, Su. 4, Vide
P.S. A. H., p. 103. 1. The Central Conception of Buddhism, p. 12. 2. bid.
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