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to that obje ct. The velocity once generated in an earthly
object produces a series of motions in succession until
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the object stops due to gravity (gurutva). Earth is by
its very nature solid, but under certain conditions when
it comes in contact with heat and is reduced to atoms
(prom膩峁噓s), a certain attribute called liquidity (dravtva)
is produced in it. Earthly particles produce a senge-
orgen through which they themselves (through the law of
3 affinity), in the form of an object, become manifest.
Water as a distinct entity possesses all the above-
mentioned qualities of earth except that it is not
solid by nature and liquidity is not conditional but
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natural to it. Tejas (heat, fire) also
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possesses
above mentioned attributes except gravity. It is due to
the lack of gravity that tejas always moves upwards.
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Liquidity is not intrinsic in it. Air possesses oblique
or transversal motion (tiryaggati). It does not possess
gravity and, therefore, it does not move downwards; and
consequently there is nothing to check its movement, which
1. Vaisesika Sutra, 5.1.18;
Prasastaped a Bhasya, Page 24.
2. Vaise sika sutra, 2.1.6-7;
Prasastap膩da Bhasya, Page 25.
3. Vaisika Sutra, 8.2.5.
4. Prasastapada Bhagya, Page 25.
5. Ibid., Page 24.
6. Valse sika sutra, 5.2.13.
7. Ibid.; Prasastapada Bhasya, Page 25.
8. Vaise sika Sutra, 5.2.13.