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TATTVĀRTHA SŪTRA: INANIMATE MATTER : 79
Functions Of Animate Matter - • Parasparopagraho jīvānāni || 21 || The duties of the living are to aid each other. (21)
Functions Of Time -- • Vartanăpariņāmah kriyā paratvāparatve ca kālasya || And those of the 'time or Kāla are Vartaná (perduration),
Pariņāma (transformation), Kriyă (activity), and Paratya (precedence) or the lack of it (Aparatva). (22)
Modes Of Tangible Matter - • Sparśarasagandhavarnavantah pudgalāḥ || 23 || • Šabdabandhasauksmyasthaulyasamisthānabhedata
maśchāyātapodyotavantaśca || 24 || Pudgala or the tangible matter is characterized by their modes of
touch, taste, smell and colour. (They) are also characterized by their modes of sound, bonding, fineness, grossness, configuration, disintegration, darkness, shadow, heat-radiation and illumination. (23–24)
Forms Of Tangible Matter - • Anavah skandhāśca || 25 || Pudgala or tangible matter is found in two forms - (Parama) anu
or the ultimate particle or the minutest indivisible particle and Skandha or aggregate (of particles) (25)
• Sanghātabhedebhya utpadyante || 26 || The aggregates come into being through agglutination (of particles
or smaller aggregates), division (of a larger aggregate) or both.
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