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of other things; it is minute, indivisible, and perma.
nent.
Padarth--a real concrete existing thing (substance);
a vastu.
Prameyatva--knowableness: the fact of being the subject of knowledge . e. being known by the souls. It It is a samanya svabhava i. e. general nature of all dravyas (substances).
Prakriti-fa-primordial matter.
Papa--karmas which keep the individual in a backward condition.
Punya-go-karmas which help the individual in advance.
ment.
Soul
-it is the conglomerate of the 8 characteristics viz. Sansari-art-embodied beings.
Svabhava--nature.
Samanya--general; a Samanya srabhara is eternal,
unanalytic, inactive.
Sattva--the fact of having origination, destruction, and permanence; the fact of having the capacity of originating new paryayas, of destroying old paryayus, and of keeping itself permanent.
Syadvada--the doctrine that in order to know a thing you must express it in seven ways.
Syat--It is a prefix. It presupposes that there are other aspects or modes of expression. It also shows that while a certain set of paryayas is being expressed or spoken of, they are changing and another set have come into existence.
Sat--The Jain position is this: First that right knowledge
is the only test or measure on our part of the exist ence of a reality; secondly, that knowledge is always a knowledge of relations; thirdly, that reality is never out of relations ( a particular reality may not be in physical relation with another reality, it may be in the relationship of subject and object, knower and known); and fourthly, that the relations are
