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different colours in a rainbow. Production of lightning, the shooting stars, and the formation of the clouds are also included in this class. For we read in Sarvartha-siddhi as follows :
वैससिकः। तद्यथा-स्निग्ध-रूक्षत्वगणनिमित्तो विद्यदल्काजलधाराग्नीन्द्रEtterfaqe: 1290
(Tr.---The production of lightning due to the mixing of positive (snigdha) and negative (ruksa) electric charges, the meteoric showers, the rainfall, the production of fire and the formation of the rainbow are examples of this class of combination in matter.
(13) Anádibandha--Eternal union as the union of the different parts of substances like dharma, adharma and äkasa.
The other modifications of matter are Sauksmya and Sthaulya, i.e., fineness and grossness. The author of Taivārtharājavurtika says:
सौक्ष्म्यं द्विविधम्, अन्त्यमापेक्षिकं च। तथा स्थौल्यम् । 291 (Fineness and grossness are each of two kinds 3rc4 (extreme) and feta (Relative).
Further from Sarvártha-siddhi on this Sutra :
तत्रान्त्यं परमाणूनाम्। आपेक्षिकं बिल्वामलक-बदरादीनाम् ।। स्थौल्यमपि द्विविधम् अन्त्यमापेक्षिकं चेति। तत्रान्त्यं जगद्व्यापिनि महास्कंधे। आपेक्षिकं बदरामलकबिल्वतालादिषु ।।
(The parmāņus furnish the examples of extreme fineness in matter and the universe itself constitutes the biggest molecule of matier (mahaskandha). There is nothing smaller than paramāņu and nothing bigger than the universe in the world of matter. Besides we talk of relative sizes : for instance, jejubes are smaller than Bel fruit or a cocoanut is bigger than a plum and so on.)
Saṁsthāna292 is the shape of a body; it may be regular geometrical shape, circular, triangular or rectangular, etc., or it may be an irregular body as the shape of the clouds.
290. Ibid. 291. Tautvårtha rajavartika, on sura 5.24. 292 Ti Tea TOTE, autor i TT-ETRECHTमतोन्यदनित्यम् ।
(Tattvärtha-rajavatika on sutra 5.24.)
