俱舍論記 12.88

12.88

「勿後麁事果生無種子故」者，勝論答。勿後劫成麁事果生無種子故。彼執劫壞之時壞麁色事，不壞常微。此常極微散在空中各各別住，劫將成時眾生業力令常極微兩兩和合生一麁果，量等父母。所生麁果復各兩兩和合共生一麁果，故復量等父母。如是展轉兩兩和合成大地等。從二極微生果已去名為麁事。散常極微名為種子，與彼麁果為種子故。應知劫壞，壞彼麁事非壞極微。

"Lest the coarse-object effect arising subsequently should have no seed": The Vaiśeṣika answers: Lest the coarse-object effect arising when the subsequent kalpa forms should be without a seed. They hold that when the kalpa is destroyed, coarse physical objects are destroyed, but the eternal atoms are not destroyed. These eternal atoms are scattered in space, each abiding separately. When the kalpa is about to form, the karmic force of sentient beings causes the eternal atoms to combine in pairs to produce one coarse effect, equal in measure to its parents. The produced coarse effects again each combine in pairs to jointly produce one coarse effect, which is again equal in measure to its parents. In this manner, progressing through pairwise combinations, the great earth and so forth are formed. From the effect produced from two atoms onward, it is called a coarse object. The scattered eternal atoms are called seeds, because they act as seeds for those coarse effects. One should know that the destruction of the kalpa destroys those coarse objects, not the atoms.