0423 Verse 550

Original

पृथिव्याद्यात्मकास्तावद्य इष्टाः परमाणवः ।
तेनित्या ये तदाद्यैस्तु प्रारब्धास्ते विनाशिनः ॥ ५५० ॥

pṛthivyādyātmakāstāvadya iṣṭāḥ paramāṇavaḥ |
tenityā ye tadādyaistu prārabdhāste vināśinaḥ || 550 ||

The ‘atoms’ that have been held to be of the nature of ‘earth’ and the rest are eternal; while those made up of the atom and the rest are evanescent.—(550)

Kamalaśīla

Earth, etc. in the form of the Atom are eternal,—the Atoms being eternal. Those that are made up of the Atom and the rest are non-eternal, according to the Law that what has a Cause must be non-eternal.

‘Atom and the rest’,—i.e. those among which Atoms are the first.

Ākāśa and the rest are eternal;—such is the sense of the Text.—(550)

The Author proceeds to discard ‘Substance’ of the said four kinds:—[see verse 550 next]