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The Jaina world of Non-living
A. It is postulated that the aggregate formation or bonding takes place upon unionisation due to combination of bondable entities. This process is known as association. Q. If this is so, it should be explained why there is bonding between mattergies due to non-deviation from their basic nature and there is conjunction in some cases and there is no such bonding in some other cases ?
The next aphorism 5.33 is intended to respond to this querry suggesting that despite the common factor of non-deviation from mattergic nature and conjunction, there is some mutually exclusive characteristic in infinite modes of mattergic entities which cause bonding :
Snigdha-rukșatvād-bandhah 5.33 The bonding of atoms or aggregates is caused due to the electrical or surfacial property of positive (smooth) and negative (rough) nature of the entities 5.33. 1. The smooth (Snigdha) is the manifestation of the mode of affinity or smoothness due to internal and external causes. (It also represents electrical nature). 2. The rough is the manifestation of the mode of roughness due to internal and external causes. Smoothness is characterised by the mode of oiliness or positivity. The roughness is the reverse of smoothness, i.e. sandiness or negativity. The fifth case represents the causality of these factors in bonding.
The bonding between atomic mattergies takes place due to them causing formation of diatomics etc. Two entities of smooth and rough character materially join together to form a diatomic aggregate. Similarly, aggregates containing numerable, innumerable and infinite atomic species or spacepoints are formed. 3. The quality of smoothness can be quantitatively expressed in terms of one, two, three, numerable, innumerable and infinite smoothness. The indivisible section of the single unit of quality of smoothness is the minimum. Higher orders may contain two, three,
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