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SIXTH CHAPTER
EFFECTS AND MODIFICATIONS
OF MATTER
FIRST SECTION,
EFFECTS OF MATTER
As pointed out previously, according to Jaina. metaphysics, Matter exists in Nature, occupying some volume in perceptible and imperceptible conditions within the sensuous and supersensuous experiences in various forms of modifications. Its effects appear as six kāyas, viz. prthivikāya (earth-embodiment), apkāya (water-embodiment), tejakāya (fire-embodiment), vāyukäya (air-embodiment), vanaspatikāya (plant-embodiment or vegetation) and trasakāya (embodime it of mobile beings), 1 and śarira (gross òrganic body), vāk (speech or voice), manas (mind) and prāṇāpāna (respiration), while its manifestations are found to exist in the forms of śabda (sound), bandha (union or combination), sauksmya (fineness), sthaulya (grossness), saṁsthāna (shape), bheda (division), tamas (darkness), chāyā (shadow ), ātapa (heat, sunray) and udyota (cool light, moonlight).It is to be noted that tamas (darkness), chāyā (shadow), ātapa (sunshine or hcat) and aloka instead of udyota (moonlight, cool light), have also been accepted as bhautika (material) or rūpa (matter) in the Vaibhāsika school of the Buddhists on the ground that they are apprehensible to the sense of sight with colour and shape (varna and samsthāna).
1. Bhs., 24. 12. 21. 702-707 ff; 25.4. 739; GS., Jivākānda,
182; Sarfravānmanaḥprāṇāpānāḥ pudgalānāṁ, TS., V.
19, p. 341. 2. Sabda-bandha-sauksmya-sthaulya-saṁsthāna-bheda
tamaschāyātapodyotavantaśza, Ibid., V. 24., p. 356.
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