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COSMOLOGY
135 aggregate. According to T.5, 24 the same is true with association, fineness and coarsenessa), form and decay, darkness, shadow, warmth and light. Of these ten phenomena the first seven are such inherent in the aggregate, whereas the last three are irradiations. The modes of the association, i.e. of the units within the animate and inanimate world, are grouped by Viy. 394b according to spontaneousness (vīsasā), impulse (paogasā), and finality (sāıya, anārya sapagjavasıya and ap.). Between the fineness and its opposite there runs the dividing-line which separates this concrete world from the one beyond sensual conceivability, the first being bāyara, the latter suhuma. Their difference is in the number of atoms: an aggregate consisting of į atoms is equally unsplittable as is the single atom, whereas if consisting of o atoms it can be split, and then it is even combustible as well as it may get wet and be able to float (V1y 232 b). T. 5, 28 points out that its spectacular appearance results from decay and association, and in order to prove this Devanandin offers a theory, though it may simply mean that the object radiates atoms which associate with the organs of sense known to be of material quality. As to the shape of aggregates we distinguish between geometrioal and non-geometrical formations, the latter being called anıtthamtha "not thus behaving". In circular (parimandala ), orbicular (vatta), triangular, square, and linear formations the atoms, or the units resp., are arranged in an either two-or three-dimensional order (payara, ghana), in linear formations (āyaya) also one-dimensionally (sedhi-dyaya), and, with the only exception of circular formations, they contain atoms in either odd or even numbers (oya-paesa, jumma-D ). Their highest and lowest numbers are laid down in Viy 860a Decay may manifest itself in the shape of smaller units, lumps, potsherds, leaves, and brookes (Pannav 266a, 288a) The material quality of darkness becomes evident in the tamu-kkaya and the kanha-rāi of the world ($ 134) Darkness and lightness of night and day are attributed according to Viy. 246b to asubha
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1 Thus instead of "smallness' and "largeness" sauksmya and sthaulya).
& JACOBI with ref to T. 5, 28
