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 286 The Nyiiya- Vaiseika Philosophy [CH. ment,downward movement, contraction, expansion and horizontal movement. The three common qualities of dravya,gu1)a and karma are that they are existent, non-eternal, substantive, effect, cause, and possess generality and particularity. Dravya produces other dravyas and the gUIas other gU1)as. But karma is not necessarily produced by karma. Dravya does not destroy either its cause or its effect, but the gU1)as are destroyed both by the cause and by the effect. Karma is destroyed by karma. Dravya possesses karma and gU1)a and is regarded as the material (samaviiyi) cause. GU1)as inhere in dravya, cannot possess further gU1)as, and are not by themselves the cause of contact or disjoining. Krma is devoid of gU1!a, cannot remain at one time in more than one object, inheres in dravya alone, and is an independent cause of contact or disjoining. Dravya is the material cause (samavayi) of (derivative) dravyas, gU1!a, and karma; gU1!a is also the non- material cause (asamiivliyi) of dravya, gU1!a and karma. Karma is the general cause of contact, disjoining, and inertia in motion (vega). Karma is not the cause of dravya. For dravya may be produced even without karma 1. Dravya is the general effect of dravya. Karma is dissimilar to gU1!a in this that it does not pro- duce karma. The numbers two, three, etc., separateness, contact and disjoining are effected by more than one dravya. Each karma not being connected with more than one thing is not produced by more than one thing 2. A dravya is the result of many con- tacts (of the atoms). One colour may be the result of many colours. Upward movement is the result of heaviness, effort and contact. Contact and disjoining are also the result of karma. In denying the causality of karma it is meant that karma is not the cause of dravya and karma 3. In the second chapter of the first book Ka1)ada first says that if there is no cause, there is no effect, but there may be the cause even though there may not be the effect. He next says that genus (sclnuillya) and species (visea) are relative to the under- pencliums. It must be noted that "glla" in 'aiseika means qualities and not subtle reals or substances as in Sarpkhya-Yoga. GUl)a in Vaiseika would be akin to what Yoga would call dharma. 1 It is only when the karya ceases that dravya is produced. See Upaskiira I. i. 22. 2 If karma is relatcd to more than one thing, then with the movement of one we should have felt that two or more things were moving. 3 It must he notcd that .. karma" in this sense is quite different from the more extensive use uf karma as meritorious or vicious action which is the cause of rebirth.