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[ Ill. 32, 34 arising from effort (Prayatna-janya) where there is an effort and where there is no effort they should not be said resulting from effort. Therefore it comes to this that the production and destruction of a product are either arising from human effort or not. That is to say they are either artificial (Prāgogika) or natural (Swabhāvika). To believe, just like Vaiśeşikas, that they are simply effort-produced goes against experience.
A detailed nature of production and destruction is given below:
It is called an aggregational production (Samudāyikautpāda) when disjoined members of a body unite. It is this very production which is styled a “body” (Skandha) in Jaina philosophy and an "aggregate" (Avayavi) in Nyāya philosophy and others. This production is also termed “Impure production" (A parisuddha) as it does not belong to one particular substance. In the same manner, it is called an aggregational destruction when it is with reference to a "body" or with regard to an "aggregate”. Both the aggregational production and destruction are possible only in the case of corporeal bodies and not incorporeal ones because for their existence they are dependent on a physical body or a new product (Janya. skandha) and such a physical body, in its turn, depends on atoms (Pudgala). Moreover, incorporeal substance has no Jangaskandha. Aggregational production and aggregational destruction are both artificial (Prayogika) and natural (Vaisrasika). The production and destruction of physical bodies such as a jar and a cloth are called artificial aggregational production and destruction,
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