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| | Making a Black Pot Red: The Vaisesika Theory of the Pilupaka |
 | | Although the two schools of Vaisesika and Nyaya are generally viewed as having merged to form a single system, there are said to be three points of difference between the two that survive to this day. |
 | | Through a sequence beginning with the impulse (i.e., the contact with heat, which generates motion within the pot, which in turn causes the separation of its constituent parts), there is the destruction of the molecule. |
 | | Once (the color) fl, etc., has ceased to exist (in the atom), there arises, through yet another contact with heat, (the new color,) e.g., red (in the atom). |
| www.columbia.edu /itc/religion/nonduality/classnotes/sep24/pilupaka.html (1839 words) |
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