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Figure 1. Mahashatavadhani Pyjyaniya Ajeet Chand Sagarji Maharasahab (left) sitting with his Guru Pujyaniya Aacharya Shri Naya Chand Sagarji Maharasahab. He gave a demonstration of 500 avadhans in Mumbai on November 16, 2014.
6.2. Did ancient Jain Acharyas tried to estimate size of smallest
particles of matter: An evidence that some unexplored mechanism to acquire knowledge exist:
Another example is taken from ancient Jain scriptures [8]. It gives a Table for measurement of length (Appendix 3). It starts from the smallest particle of matter and goes up to one Yojana (a commonly used unit of length prevalent in ancient India). It indicates that ancient Jain acharyas have made an attempt to develop a table for measurement of length in 20 steps. This is an octal system till step 12. As explained in the Appendix 3, if we statistically interpret it then we find that as per their assessment, the size of the smallest particle of matter (known as avsannasanna skandha from practical point of view in prakrit language) is 2.9X 10 cm. This value lies in between the size of a modern atom (10 cm) and size of a nucleus (10 cm). Now we may not be knowing the meanings of many of
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