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not require the additional term with a meaning of 'only' (Eva). It is just like the meaning of the statement 'one eats water' which means 'one eats water only and nothing else'. The meaning has a sense of 'only' automatically. (Here can one replace the word 'eat' by 'drink' as water is drunken rather than eaten?) Supplementary Notes
1.
The commentary deals with the following points:
(a)
The atoms (and its components named as fundamental particles whose number is increasing day by day) are produced by the method of division only.
The aphorism 5.27 makes this point as a rule over the statement
(b)
of 5.26.
2.
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The 'atom' (anu) has already been defined earlier. Generally, the word should be taken as equivalent to current atom here which is the apparent atom.
3. The ideal atoms are also produced by division.
4.
Vidyananda has refuted the views of Vaiseṣikas and Buddhists regarding the production of atoms or aggregates. It is said that they are all specific forms of disjunction or conjunction spread over space due to the these processes. This will involve non-formation of both on logical grounds. If conjunction of components leads to production of the composite, why disjunction of composite could not lead to production of components?
It can not be said that atoms can not be produced due to their eternality because the atoms are only substantively so and not modally. The di-atomic etc. are material causes and the disjunction processes are instrumental causes for their production. There is no valid proof that the aggregates are produced from the atoms but aggregates can not form atoms. As an inference, one can say that atoms or other fine particles are produced from the division of aggregates as they are fine like the split fabrics or powders etc. There is no contradictory inference for this.
The aggregates are generally produced by association. However, the aphorism 5.26 indicates other processes too for their production. The
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