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qualities.
AN EPITOME OF JAINISM.
(9) Ponderableness ( HTC ) may be described as the quality of existing in some form or other.
(10) Imponderableness (oha)--may be described as the power of existing without having any particular form.
These are, then, the ten generic qualities of things or substances in general.
But there are certain other qualities
which do not appear to constitute either (ii) Specific
the essence of or common to all things. Because the things may have them or be without them and yet remain essentially the same in kind for which reason these are understood to be but modifications of our consciousness and are termed as specific qualities.
(i) Consciousness (a), (ii) Vision (EAA), Enumeration (iii) Pleasure (pe), (iv) Vigour (alc), (v)
Touch (i), (vi) Taste (T8), (vii) Smell (514), (viii) Colour (au), (ix) Mobility (itfarga), (x) Inertia (feafa ga ), (xi) Volumeness (yanga ga), (xii) Becomingness (aziarega), (xiii) Sensibility (aaa), (xiv) Insensibility (qanaz), (xv) Ponderableness (pica), (xvi) Imponderableness (FTA). Of these
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of Specific Qualities as belonging particular substances.
