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an activity might be sinful or virtuous and enumerates ten types of each - in each case four types having to do with speech, three with manas, three with body.34 More importantly he submits that an activity as thus understood is momentary as is all action but that it leaves behind in the soul concerned an impression' which persists there till the fruit of this activity is not reaped, the technical name for this 'impression being dharma-cum-adharma.
(2) Moral Defilement The aphorist says that a moral defilement is what gives rise to an activity.36 Answering an objection Jayanta submits that even if'a moral defilement is an object of direct introspection it is here defined so indirectly in order to make clear its role in one's involvement in the cycle of rebirths.37 To this is added that a moral defilemént. belongs to one of the three types, viz. attachment, aversion; delusion - specific instances pertaining to each type being enumerated. Lastly it is argued that delusion is the most basic type of moral defilement inasmuch as it initiates the remaining two types.39
(3) Rebirth . The aphorist says that being born again is what is called rebirth.40 Jayanta explains that there is no question of a body being born again but that even a soul is born again only in the sense that it gets associated with a new body.4! In this connection Jayanta undertakes to vindicate the atomic hypothesis under the pretext of explaining how a body is made up of atoms. His basic argument is that a physical body like a jar can be either not 'made up of parts, or made up of an infinite number of parts, or made up of a finite number of parts but that the first two alternatives being untenable the last has to be accepted, an acceptance amounting to endorsing the atomic hypothesis.12 Then it is argued that atoms being inanimate they cannot go to make up things of the world unless they are guided by an omniscient and omnipresent God.43 Lastly it is submitted that a combination of two invisible particles cannot be visible but that a combination of even three atoms cannot be visible, so that what happens is that two atoms first combine into a dyad and then three dyads combine into a triad which becomes visible.44
(4) Fruit of Action The aphorist says that fruit of action is the thing that results from an activity coupled with a moral defilement.45 Jayanta explains that
