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An extract from “ History of Hindu Chemistry,"
General properties of matter:
The specific characters of the Pudgalas (Matter) are of two kinds, (1) those which are found in atoms as well as in aggrigates, and (2) those which are found only in aggregatur. Qualities of touch, tasto, smell and colour come under the first head. The original Pudgalas being homogeneous and indorterminate, all sensible qualities, including the infrasensible qualitics of atoms, are the result of evolution ( TOTA ). Every aton has thus evolved possesses and infrasensible (or potential) taste, sinell and colour, ( one kind of each) and two infrascosible tactile qualities e. g. a certain degroe of rouglmess or smoothness (or dryness and moistness ? ) and of heat or cold. Earth-atoms, Apatonis etc. are but differentiations of the originally homogeneous Pudgalas. The tactile qualities at, itasi, JC, sifa ) uppear first, but qualities of taste, smell and colour are involved in tho possession of trcticle qualities. An aggregato (Skandha) whether binary, tertiary or of a higher order, possesses ( in acldition to touch, taste, smell and colour ) tho following physical characters:-- (1) sound, (2) atomic linking, or mutual attraction and ropulsion of atoms, (3) dimension, small or great, (4) figure, (5) divisibility, (6) opacity and casting of shadows, and (7) radiant heat and light.
Sensible qualities. Tactile qualities aro of the following kindshardness or softness, heaviness or lightness (ilegrees of pressure ), heat or cold, and roughness or simoothness (or dryness and viscosity ?). Of these, the atouis (Ames) possess only topera. ture, and degrees af roughness or smothness, but all the four kinds of tactile qualities in different degrees and combinations characterise aggregates of matter from the livary molecule upwards. The Jains appear to have thought that gravity was developed in molecules as the result of atomic linking. Siaple tastes are of five kincis,-bitter, pungent, astringent, acid and sweet. Salt is supposed by some to be resolvable into sweet, whilo others consider it as a compound taste. Sviells are either plear sant or unpleasant, Mallislena notes some clementary varieties of unpleasant smell, E.Ş. the smell of asafoetidla, ordure, etc. The sinple colours are five-black, blue, red, yellow and white. Sounds
| SR No. | 522037 |
| Book Title | Buddhiprabha 1912 04 SrNo 01 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Adhyatma Gyan Prasarak Mandal |
| Publisher | Adhyatma Gyan Prasarak Mandal |
| Publication Year | 1912 |
| Total Pages | 34 |
| Language | Gujarati |
| Classification | Magazine, India_Buddhiprabha, & India |
| File Size | 579 KB |