हैि तैरभ्युपगम्यते | संहतौ व्याप्रियामाणाः परमाणवः पूथिव्यादयश्च तदानीमेव नष्टाश्चेत्, के समुदायरूपेण संहन्यन्ते ?
इतरेतरप्रत्ययत्वादुपपन्नमिति चेत्; न, संघातभावानिमित्तत्वात् ॥ १८ ॥
अस्थिरे^ स्थिरत्वबुद्धिरूपाविद्याया^^ रागद्वेषादिपरंपरायामन्योन्यकारणत्वात्सर्वमुपपन्नमिति चेत्; न, अविद्यायाः संघातभावानेिमेित्तत्वात् । न हि शुक्तिकादियु रजतादिबुद्धिरूपाविद्यया शुक्तिकादिर्वस्तुतो रजतादि-
of all things. Suppose the atoms and earth, etc., that function in the formation of an aggregate, are destroyed in the second moment of their existence, then, what are those things, that could be collected together in the form of aggregates?
18. Itaretarapratyayatvaadupapannamiti cet ; na,
samghaatabhaavaanimittatvaat
And if it be said that this is to be maintained through successive causality; we say, 'no' ; on account of their not being the causes of aggregation.
If it be said that through the successive causality of nescience, that produces the knowledge of steadiness in unsteady objects, the desire and the aversion etc. all these may be accounted for. It is not so. The nescience cannot be the cause in the formation of aggregates. As regards nescience, where the knowledge of silver is produced in nacre, etc. the nacre, etc. cannot produce the purpose served by the
^ अस्थिरेषु M 3, Pr.
^^अविद्यारागद्वेषादि Pr
