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TATTVĀRTHA SŪTRA : INANIMATE MATTER : 83
• Na jaghanyaguņānāṁ || 33 || • Gunasāmye sadrśānāmi || 34 || • Dvayadhikādigunānām tu || 35 || • Bandhe samādhikau pārināmikau || 36 || The bondage/combination does not take place if these properties
are present in the minimal quantities in both.the particles and aggregates concerned. It, also, does not take place between particles and aggregates of similar nature with same degree of smoothness/viscosity/positivity or roughness/dryness/ negativity. The bondage/combination occurs if the degree of proprty in one is two or more degrees higher than the other. When the bondage/combination occurs the particles or aggregates with same or higher degrees of property transform
others with same or lower degrees of properties. (32—36) Qualities Of Matter - • Gunaparyāyavad dravyami || 37 || Matter possesses Guna-characteristico and Paryāya-modes. (37) Materiality Of Time - • Kālascetyeke || 38 || • So‘nantasamayah || 39 || Some Ācāryas-masters also take Kāla or time as matter. That
Kāla is of infinite paryāya or modes.22 (38–39)
24 The modes of matter change continuously. This very power of matter
is its characteristic. 21 This is the stand taken by the Svetāmbara tradition where Kāla is not,
unanimously, recognized as an independent matter. Digambara tradition is, however, unanimous in taking it as an independent
matter in its own right. 22 The present-mode of Kāla is only one, but its past and future modes
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