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[SŪ. 2 2 11.
340 VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA ADH. 2 ]
ocean arises from the water-atoms and remains flowing. In the very
same manner, the great earth arises from the earth-atoms and remains
immobile in the form of clay, stones and the rest. Again, the qualities
of the effects arise from the qualities of the cause. Just as the qualities
of a piece of cloth arise from the qualities of the thread,—a red cloth
being found to arise from red threads,—so the qualities of whiteness
and the like, inhering in the binary compounds and the rest, arise
from the qualities of whiteness, etc. inhering in the atoms. But
the combination of two simple atoms, producing a binary compound,
produces different measures, viz. minuteness and shortness, in the
binary compound, but do not produce sphericity, the measure of the
simple atoms themselves,—because, then, there will result an intense
fineness (on the part of the binary compound which it has not).
Similarly, at the time of dissolution, too, through the wish of the
Lord, there is motion in the atoms, thereby the dissolution of their
conjunction, thereby the dissolution of the binary compounds and so
on, and in this manner, finally, there is the dissolution of the earth
and the rest.
This view is being refuted here. The particle "or" in the aphorism
is meant for implying the aggregate (of defects in the atomic doctrine)
left unsaid. The word 'inconsistent' is to be supplied from above.
The phrase: "from the short and the spherical" is to be applied by
dividing it in a compatible manner. This being so, like the doctrine
of the origin of a short binary compound from two simple spherical
atoms, and like the doctrine of the origin of the great and long ternary
compounds from the short (binary compounds), everything else too,
maintained by them (viz. the atomists), is inconsistent—this is the
construction of the words of the aphorism.
The sense is this: The origin of binary compounds from atoms
is impossible. That being impossible, the origin of the ternary com-
pounds from the binary compounds is all the more impossible. In
exactly the same manner, whatever is maintained by the atomists
is simply inconsistent. Thus, it is observed that the parts, viz. the
threads and the rest, produce a whole, viz. a piece of cloth, only by
being conjoined (with one another) by means of their six sides which
are their own parts. An atom, too, is established to have six parts
through its connection with the six quarters. As has been said:
'An atom has six parts because of its simultaneous connection with the
six (quarters)'. Hence, even the atoms must be productive of effects