Jain Journal 1989 01

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

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heat, impact and vibration, and which serve to form the radicle of the earth-atom.173
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According to the Nyaya-Vaisesika, transformation of atomic matter takes place in the form of chemical action in its different forms in accordance with the following rules, viz. (1) kāraṇaguṇapūrvakah kāryaguṇodrstah,174 (2) samānajātiyasamyogah dravyārambhakah vijātīyasamyogah, (3) apakajaruparasagandhasparsaparimāṇaikatvaikaprthaktvagurutvadravatvasnehavegah karaṇaguṇapūrvakāh and (4) rūparasagandhanusnasparsasabdaparimaṇaikatvaikapṛthaktvasnehah samānajātyārambhakah175.
The Nyaya philosophy agrees with the Vaisesika on this point käraṇaguṇapūrvakah karyaguṇodṛṣṭah (the quality of the composite product is produced by the corresponding quality of the constitutive cause as a rule). But it differs from the latter in regard to a particular class of events, viz. the emergence of new qualities in earth bodies due to the action of heat. That is, it is a kind of disjunction-conjunction of the taijasa (fiery) elements by which the previous colour, etc., of the earthatoms are destroyed and another colour, etc., are produced in their place.
On the contact of an earthly object with fire in a furnace a motion is generated in the ultimate constituent particles of it through the forcible
173 Ibid., pp. 25-26.
sadavisesah tadyatha sabdatanmatram sparsatanmatram rupatanmatram rasatanmatram gandhatanmatram ca ityekadvitricaturpancalaksanah, sabdadayah pancavisesah, Vyasabhasya on Yogasutra, 18, pada II, p. 98.
ahankarat sabdatanmatram tatascahankarasahakrtat sabdatanmatrat sabdasparsagunam sparsatanmatram evamkramena ekaikagunavrdhya tanmatrani utpadyante, Samkhyapravacanabhasya, 1. 62.
sabdadinam murttisamanajatiyanam ekah parinamah prthiviparamanuh tanmatravayvah bhutantaresu api snehausanyaprinamitva avakasadanani upadaya samanyam ekavikararambhah samadheyah, Vyasabhasya on Yogasutra, sutra 14, pada iv. tadyatha gandhatanmatram varjjayitva catustanmatranam snehajatiyanam ekah parinamah jalaparamanuh tesam ca mahajaladih evam gandharasau varjjayitva ausnya jatiyanam tritanamatranam tejo anu tebhyah mahatejadih evam gandharasanam varjanat dvabhyam vayvanuh tebhya mahavayvadih evam sabdatanmatradahankaramsa-sahakrtat akasanu tebhya mahakasadih, Vijnanabhiksu remarks, atra darsane ayam siddhantah sabdaditanmatrapancake kathinyasnehadivyangyah prthivityadi jatiyah santi, Yogavartika, Su. 14, pada IV.
174 Vaisesikasutra, II. 1 24.
175 Prasastapadabhasya, Gunapadarthanirupanam.