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of the clayness, which is found on both sides-of-the-process (kotidvaya): in the same way, when the finishing (of any thing whatever), effected by internal and external causes, is present, then the moment of coming-into-existence of the posterior modification is the same as the moment of annihilation of the prior modification, and the same as the moment of the persistence of the substantiality found on both sides-of-the-process.
And, as origination, annihilation and continuance, which respectively inhere, one in the product, one in the clod and one in the clayness, are conjointly seen at one moment in the clay, which has contact with a threefold innate nature: similarly origination, annihilation and continuance, which respectively inhere, one in the posterior modification, one in the prior modification, and one in the substantiality, are conjointly seen at one moment in the substance, which has contact with a threefold innate nature.
And, as the origination, annihilation and stability, which abide in the product, the clod and the clayness, are the clay, and nothing else: in the same way the origination, annihilation and stability, which abide in the posterior modification, the prior modification and the substantiality, are the substance, and not another object.
Now he considers the origination, annihilation and continuance of a substance by means of the modifications of several substances:
II.11. One modification of a substance originates and another vanishes; the substance has not vanished and has not originated. (103)
For, as here one triple atom of homogeneous nature, a modification of several substances, vanishes and another, fourfold, atom arises, and, as these three or four matter-particles remain constant, not vanishing and not arising: in the same way all homogeneous modifications of substances vanish and arise, whilst the homogeneous substances remain constant, not vanishing and not arising.
And, as one, characterized as man and possessing a heterogeneous nature, vanishes, and another, god (heavenly being), arises, but the two, soul and the matter, remain constant, not vanishing and not arising: in the same manner all heterogeneous modifications of substances vanish and arise, whilst the heterogeneous substances remain constant, not vanishing and not arising.
Thus the substances, in themselves constant, but becoming origination and annihilation through the substance-modifications, are
