Doctrine of Jainas

SR No.: 011097
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Walther Shubring, Wolfgang Beurlen
Publisher: Motilal Banarasidas
Publication Year: 1978
Total Pages: 309
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 17 MB

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COSMOLOGY
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concerned By I u. of soul, and, equally, I u of matter, coinciding with o u. of soul and co u. of matter, we are given proof of the greater density of these substances
Viy 420b, Thān 251b say that the individual soul has as many paesa as has the space of the world But this does not refer to the limiting case of the Kevalın as the comm. wants us to believe, it simply says that both have units One individual soul occupies the room of 1/c ang. (or either more) of such quantities (T. 5, 15) as are presumed by the part of that or that size acquired through Karman So then (substantially) the soul of an elephant equals that of a louse, as is explained by the simile of the lamp whose light, as the case may be, will illuminate a large or a small hollow room (Rāyap 140a, referred to by Viy. 313a). T. 5, 16 in giving this simile its literary expression hereto introduces the conception of contraction and expansion. They stand for different densities within the same number of units, ie., ¿ in different bodies (Siddh. ref to T. 5, 8).1 For the historical importance of the theory (V1y 365a), according to which the soul equals the body in size, see JACOBI GGA 1919, 17.
Also the units of matter differ in number from O up to co. The lower limit is the smallest unit of matter, the atom. It is true that, acc to Kundakunda, the atom has 1 unit (Davvas 26), but acc to Umāsvātı it has none It is one (T. 5, 11 and Siddh. ref to 5, 11, 14), and thus it coincides with lu It follows that also the word poggalatthikāya-paesa is being applied in speaking of the atom, and its combinations have the word paesa added (see below): There is still another difference with regard of the density of these paesa: 1 u space may contain up to do atoms (Viy. 613b) That is to say: 2 units of matter coincide with 1 or 2 u of space (and as many units of motion and rest), 3 with 1, 2 or 3, and finally co with 1, 2, 3, ....x, co or c. For an explanation Siddh. gives a number of similes with ref to 5, 14.
1. JAINI, Outlines p 17 speaks of an elasticity of the soul
boggala-metle m paese Viy 5798
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Comp also paramanu poggard-TICHID puwe VY 5794