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there will be change of touch, taste, smell and colour etc.only just like the change of colour to green on mixing the white and yellow colours.
3. There is another rendering of this aphorism 5.37 where the word 'adhikau' has been replaced by the word 'samādhikau'. This is the Śvetāmbara tradition. This means that a two unit smooth can transform a two unit smooth entity also during bond-formation. (These subaphorismic examples illustrate the nature of atomic bonding to be mostly physical but the illustration of change of other properties lead to somewhat chemical nature of bonding also).
4. This rendering is not correct as it is canonically contradictory. The Satkhandagama text in its subsection of bonding under section of Variform (Vargaṇā) postulates that there is bonding under dissimilar smoothness and dissimilar roughness. There is no bonding under similar smoothness and roughness. It is because of this that aphorism 5.34 excludes the bonding under similarity of intensity and quality. Thus, the Svetambara rendering is contradictory to the canons.
5. Q. The canons postulate bonding between similar or dissimilar entities excluding minimum numericality. This leads to bonding between similar entities in quality and intensity. Thus, there no canonical contradiction.
A. This is not correct. The questioner has not understood the correct meaning of canons. The word 'similar' here does not mean quantitatively similar but qualitatively similar. The 'similar' means homologous and dissimilar means heterologous. The homologous entity with 4-unit intensity of smoothness has a bonding with 6-unit intensity in smoothness. Similarly, a dissimilar entity with 4-unit intensity of roughness will have bonding with 6-unit roughness.
What is the object of all this reference ?
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A. It illustrates the process of karmic bonding with the living soul. The living soul binds infinite spacepointed karmas through its mental, vocal and physical activities. These karmas are of the nature of knowledge-obscuring karmas etc. with a duration of thirty crore (30x101) Sagara time units etc. They bind with the soul deeply transforming its nature accordingly and do not dissociate easily.
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