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intensity and ihe intensity possessed by a paraniānu can always be expressed by an integral number and not by a fraction
d) Formation of composite material bodies Elementary particles--puiumānus--combine together and produce composite bodies The simplest composites are made up by the combination of two paramānus and are called chipradesma skandha Then there are inprudesia chutu pradesia etc made up by three, four and so on parimūnus respectively By this process we come to bodies made up of asankhya (innumerable) and ananaia (infinite) and finally anantānanta (infinitely infinite) number of paramaTrus respectively called asanh hva-pradesiai, amantupradesia, and anuntānunta piadesiya skandha Jain sages by their profound hnowledge of the structure of matter have established that this process of combination of pai amanus and production of skandhas follow some definite rulcs Out of the four innate qualities of a paramānu the quality responsible for the combination is (dry and unctuous) spai sa 77
The fundamental condition is that the paraniānus with unit intensity of dryness or unctuousness are not qualified to participate in the composition" This means that paramājus participating in a composition must possess more than unit intensity of dryness or unctuousness
Combination of paraignus with same as well opposite sparsa is possible When two paramānus possessing same sparsa (say unctuousness) combine, the minimum difference between the intensities of
76 Jains conceive an infinite gradation of infinity 77 SNIGDHA-roukstrād bandhalı -Tattvartha Sürra
78 Snigdha rool.snad ajagnjagunānām - Jaina Siddhanta Deepihà, 1 17
