Concept of Matter in Jaina Philosophy

SR No.: 001663
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: J C Sikdar
Publisher: P V Research Institute Varanasi
Publication Year: 1987
Total Pages: 412
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Philosophy, & Physics
File Size: 23 MB

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SECOND SECTION
PROPERTIES OF ATOM (PARAMĀŅU)
As to its property of colour there exists in it any one of the 'following five colours, viz. black, blue, red, yellow and white. 1 There cannot be more than one colour in a paramāņu. This colour may be onefold up to infinitefold. The colour of one paramāņu can undergo transformation into the colour of another paramāņu by combining with another paramāņu or .paramāņus and vice versa, but its natural (intrinsic) colour is not destroyed. On the breaking up of the combination, a paramāņu transforms itself into its own natural colour by dissociating from a skandha (molecule). There is no mixed colour in a paramāņu.S
In regard two smell there exists in a paramānu any one of the following two smells, viz. pleasant and unpleasant.4 There cannot be both of them or a mixture of them in it. The capacity of smell can be onefold up to infinitefolds in it. A paramāņu having pleasant smell can transform into a paramāņu having unpleasant smell by combination with another paramāņu or paramāņus and vice versa. On account of division by the breaking up of the combination a paramāņu transforms itself 1. Bhs., 20. 5. 668; 18. 6. 531. 2. Egagunakālagā ņam Bhamte !...aņaṁtaguņakālagā, evam
avasesāvi vannagamdharasaphāsā ņeyavvā jāva anamta
gunalukkhati, BhS., 25. 4. 740. .3. Yadā tu sa eva pudgalaskandhah syaparamāņuviyojanena
aparaparamāņusamyojanena vā dravyāntaratvamāpanno' api yāvatpūrvaparyāyān krsnatvādınna muñcati tāvadbhāvasthānāyurityucyate, Paramāņukhandaşaștrimśikā, p. 1;
RV., 5. 25. 13, 14, pp. 491-2. 4. Bhs., 20. 5. 668; 18. 6. 631; 25. 4. 740. 5. Bhs., 25.4. 740, Bhaņņai egaguņāņavi aņaṁtabhāgammi
jam anamtagunā, Pudgalaşattriņšikā, p. 2 (5)