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Jaina Theory of Sound (Sabda)
intense efforts and some are unbroken, 1 e continuous The broken (emitted) speeches go to the last border of the universe, getting increased and increased infinitefold That 18 to say, some healthy speaker emits bharadravyas (speech-substances) with intense effort out of liking and they are broken forth into parts by the efforts of receiving and throwing out matters, while some sick person emits gross particles of unbroken (continuous) speechsubstances with gentle effort out of disliking These particles of unbroken speech-substance, getting increased infinitefold on account of their fineness and manifoldness and association with other material substances, such as, air etc go to the last borders of the universe in six directions, ie spread to the last borders of the universe1 Io other words, a belog emits speechsubstance which it receives for speaking as broken and unbroken (bhinna and abhinna) 39 Those speech-substances, belog omitted, touch (reach) the last borders of the universe, getting increased and increased infinitefold The unbroken speech-substances, having crossed countless points of immer 9100, broak forth and having gone to countable yojanas die out" in the borizon
Parághāta Bhasádravya
There takes place the force võsana called parāghala (impact or striking wave) of the prayoga-väsana-yogya-drapyas (Speech-substances produced or pronounced with the efforts of palatals, etc) That parāgharabhasa 1s emitted as being generated by the striking of speech-substances against one another (dravyakaramblia) out of the straight line (1 e in a curved line) due to the fineness of emitted speech substances from the going in a straight line anusrent quagahana) Paraghatabhaşa becomes also mixed (mitra-nilssta-dravya karambita) 10 a parallel line (samabhasa kadiga pekşapradhvara Srent) Su it is stated in the Niryuko that paraghalabhaşa goce la a curved line 6
In regard to the propagation of sound the early Nyaya-Vaiseșika philosophers maintain that the first sound, generated by the Impact of vibrating molecules of sonorous bodies against contiguous molecules of air to the substrate akaba, 16 generates sound and so on, just as waves produced in water or ocean, until the last sound causes a vibration 10 the ear-drum (karna-taskull) This propagation of sound 18 effected by the air-wave as its carrier Akasa (space) 18 immobile, but the air-wave is not transmitted without the inter-connecting of air-molecules by akata Udyota kara86 holds the view that the first sound produces indefinile number of sounds in all directions, not one sound, in a circle, cach of them geocrates again another one and so on, in such a way that sound expands by successive concentric spherical layers, just as Kadambakoraka (bud of the Nancha Kadamba) expands by successive concentric spherical layers of filaments, shooting forth from one another Of theso two hypotheses the
| SR No. | 520751 |
| Book Title | Sambodhi 1972 Vol 01 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Dalsukh Malvania, H C Bhayani |
| Publisher | L D Indology Ahmedabad |
| Publication Year | 1972 |
| Total Pages | 416 |
| Language | English, Sanskrit, Prakrit, Gujarati |
| Classification | Magazine, India_Sambodhi, & India |
| File Size | 11 MB |