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LECTURE XXXVI.
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I shall now give their fourfold division with regard to time. (12)
With regard to the continuous flow (or development of a thing) it is without beginning and without end; but with regard to its existence as an individual thing) it has both a beginning and an end". (13)
The longest duration of Things without life possessing form is an immeasurable 2 period; the shortest one Samaya. (14)
The longest interruption 3 in the existence of Things without life possessing form is an endless time; the shortest one Samaya. (15)
Their development is fivefold: with regard to 1. colour, 2. smell, 3. taste, 4. touch, and 5. figure. (16)
Those which develop with regard to colour are of five kinds: 1. black, 2. blue, 3. red, 4. yellow, 5. white. (17)
Those which develop with regard to smell are of two kinds : 1. sweet-smelling substances, and 2. of bad smell. (18)
Those which develop with regard to taste are of five kinds: 1. bitter, 2. pungent, 3. astringent, 4. sour, and 5. sweet. (19)
Those which develop with regard to touch are of eight kinds: 1. hard, 2. soft, 3. heavy, 4. light, 5. cold, 6. hot, 7. smooth, and 8. rough.
1 The meaning of this verse is that a thing, as far as its material cause is concerned, has always existed, and will ever exist under one form or other, but that the individual thing in its present form has but a limited existence.
3 Asam kha kâlam. See above, p. 42, note 2.
8 Antaram; the interval between the thing being removed from its proper scene and reaching it again (Avakûri and Dipika).
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