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THE JAINA PHILOSOPHY
their unctuousness must be two units 79 Similarly the minimum difference of two units of intensity between dryness of two paramānus qualify them to combine On the other hand the paraniānus with opposite sparsa ie. dryness and unctuousness would combine without qualifying minimum difference between their intensities The 615th verse of Gommatsāra says “An unctuous particle may combine with another unctuous particle with a minimum difference of two units of unctuousness And this also is the rule in the case of dry particles The combination of an unctuous particle with a dry one is always possible be they of the same or different intensities But in all these three the particles possessing the unit intensity ie one unit of each sparsa are excepted "80
1) Extension Since paramāņu itself is a dimensionless point, space occupied by a single free paramānu is an indivisible point (space-point) Two free paramānus will therefore occupy two space-points But after fusion an aggregate of two paramāņus may occupy a single space-point An aggregate composed of infinite paramānus, if densely packed may also occupy a single space-point The maximum extension of an aggregate is equal to the number of its constituent paramānus The maximum extension of an aggregate with infinite parainānus 15 asainkhya and not infinite space-points It must be remembered that a number of paraniānus may occupy the same space at the same time and may or may not unite
79 Drajadhıkādiguntve sadȚsánām-Ibid 1 18 80 Nidhdhassa nidhdhena dunāviyena
Lukhassa luhlena duhāyriena Nidhdhassa luh hena ujey bundho
Jahnnarajo visumo samo vā -Gommatasära Jeevahanda, garhā 615
