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Letter 16 attributes pertaining to it. Therefore, now we shall mainly deal with the modifications of the special attributes of Jeev and Pudgal Dravya.
In Pudgal substance, touch, taste, smell, colour and Kriyawati Shakti etc. are special attributes. We know this from our previous letters. This attribute of touch has eight different modifications. They are light and heavy ( weight), hard and soft, viscous and nonviscous, hot and cold. At a time there is one modification only either light or heavy, hard or soft etc.
In the same manner, out of each pair, only one modification is possible at one time. In this way, the attribute of touch has four modifications together at any given time. According to the scripture named Niyamsar and Panchastikay (नियमसार, पंचास्तिकायं) these four modifications are only.in Pudgal Skandha.
But the single Paramanu can have only two modifications at a time i.e. out of being viscous and nonviscous only one modification is possible, and from cold and hot also only one modification is possible at a time. To put it in other words, it can either be viscous or nonviscous and cold or hot. Viscous means greesy i.e. Snigddha fepu and nonviscous means dry or rough i.e. Ruksha
There is one more interesting thing about this touch attribute of Pudgal substance. Though there are infinite attributes in Pudgal substance, only the modifications of viscous or nonviscous of the touch attribute are responsible and cause of the bondage between two or more Paramanus.
Same is the case with Jeev Dravya. Because in the Jeev Dravya Mithyatva fora, passions i.e. Raag n and Dvesha e are the main causes of bondage i.e. Bandhau. They occur with the rise of Mohaniya Karma neita ant.
There are five modifications of taste attribute - sour, sweet, bitter, astringent and pungent. There can be only one modification out of these five at any given time.
There are two modifications of attribute of smell. They are fragrance and bad odour. Here also any one modification is existing at any given time.
There are five modifications of the attribute of colour white, red, black, yellow and blue. Out of these only one modification is there at any time.
Sound is a Skandha and Bhasha Vargana is modified or expressed through noises or in the form of vocal sounds. Hence sound is not an attribute, but a modification of the Pudgal substance.
Kriyawati Shakti has two modifications one of motion or being in motion ( kinetic ) and another is stationery position ( static ).
