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The Concept of Matter in Jaina Philosophy
like colour etc., even being inherent in the non-apprehended fragrant substance, are intangible because of being unproduced or fine and they are not experienced as becoming a gross objeet of the sense-organs like eye, etc., so colour, etc., of air also are apprehended by the sense-organs. Smell has been posited before colour because it is imperceptible. Last of all colour has been accepted on the ground that it is experienced as inhering in the gross material substance only. 1
It is further stated in th: Āgamas and the post-āgamic works that Matter possesses five colours, five tastes, two smells and eight touches. The numbers of colour, of taste, of smell, and of touch are specifically mentioned in them in the following manner: colour is of five kinds, viz. black, blue, red, yellow and white; taste is of five kinds, viz. bitter, sour, acidic, sweet and astringent; smell is o two kinds, viz. pleasant and unpleasant; and touch is of eight kinds, viz. soft, hard, heavy, light, cold, hot, smooth and rough. The sub-division of modes of each of these twenty kinds of property of Matter may be one to countable, countless and infinite3 from the standpoint of the relation ( state ) of degrees. At every samaya ( instant ) the possible divisions of four qualities among them are found in each and every matter. In other words, every one of them has got ore 1. Visayabalattvāt sparśagrahaņamādau, TS., p. 355;
Sparśagrahaņamādau visayabaladarśanāt (1); Rasaprasanga iti cet ; na; sparse sati tadbhāvāt (2); Vāyau tadabhāvāt vyabhicāra iti cet; na tatrāpyabhyupagamāt, (3); RV., p. 484; Rūpāt prāggandhavacanam acākşuşatvāt...ante varṇagrahanam sthaulye sati tadupalabdheḥ (5); RV., p, 484;
TS. SI, p. 419; TS., p. 355 2. Poggale pancavanne pascarase dugamdhe atthaphāse
paņņatte, Bhs., 12. 5. 450; TS. Bhā., p. 356; SS., p. 356;
RV., pp. 484-5. 3. Bhs., 25.4, 739; Anuyogadvāra, p. 110;
Ta ete mūlabhedāḥ pratyekaṁ samkhyeyāsamkheyānantābhedāśca bhavanti, SS,, 5. 23 ( Comm.).
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