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The Jaina world of Non-living
this village. However, the word 'guna' here has a sense of numerical multiplication or parts. Those atoms or entities are called minimumvalued with respect to smoothness and roughness which have the minimum numericality of these qualities.
Thus, the aphorism means that there will be no bonding between (a) atoms with unit smoothness (b) an atom with unit smoothness and atoms with two, numerable or imnumerable units of smoothness (c) an atom with unit smoothness and an atom with unit roughness (d) an atom with unit roughness and an atom with multiple roughness (e) atoms with unit roughness (f) an atom with unit roughness and an atom with two, numerable, innumerable units of roughness.
The aphorism 5.34 leads to general bonding except in case of entities with minimum value of smoothness and roughness. This is not canonically desirable. The aphorism 5.35 indicates an another exception : Guņasāmye Saděšanām
5.35. There will be no bonding between similar entities which possess equal values or number of smoothness or roughness 5.35. 1. The word 'similar' means entities having same class of smoothness or roughness. 2. The term 'gunasāmye' means numerical equality of the above qualities. 3. Q. The term 'similar' is not necessary in this aphorism as the term 'numerically similar' serves the purpose. A. This is not correct. If there had been no word 'similar', it would have meant that there will be no bonding between bi-valent smooth and bi-valent rough entities or between trivalent smooth and trivalent rough entities and so on because of numerical similarity. (This is undesirable). The inclusion of the term 'similar' means a condition of no bonding as below :
There will be no bonding between similarly charged similar atomic entities like those between bivalent smooth or bivalent rough entities.
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