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Classification of Matter
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touches upto one class of matters having infinitefold dry touch, one class of molecules (skandhas) having minimum number of units, one class of molecules having maximum number of units, one class of molec'iles having neither minimum nor maximum number of units, thus the classes of molecules having minimum, maximum and neither minimum nor maximum immersion, minimum, maximum and neither minimum nor maximum duration, minimum black colour, maximum black colour and neither minimum nor maximum black colour; thus with regard to the remaining colours, smells, taste and touches upto one class of molecules having neither minimum nor maximum dry touch.1
In the Nyāya-Vaiseșika Philosophy, paramāņus (ultimate atoms) from one class as the ultimate cause of the Universe, though there are stated to be different kinds of paramāņus e. g. earth-atom, etc. According to the Sāmkhya-Yoga, Prakști represents one class of matters as the Primordial Matter like the Jaina Paramāņus, while in the physical sciences only energy of matter exists as one class in the form of its manifestation in the Universe. Two classes of Matter
In Jaina Philosophy the entire mass of Matter (Pudgala) has been classified into two forms, viz. paramāņu (ultimate atom) and skandha (molecule or aggregate of ultimate atoms). So Matter exists in the forms of paramāņu and skandha (ultimate atom and molecule). The material substance which is cause-like is called paramānupudgala (ultimate material substance); it is eternal. The apprehension of this atomic matter cannot be made by the senses; it is the material substance which is to be apprehended by the knowledge revealed in the Agama or by inference. The existence of it has been inferred by the mark of its effect. Those miterial effects which are come across are
1. Egā paramāņuppoggalāņaia vaggaņā ajahannukkosaguņa
lukkhāņam poggalāņam vaggaņā -Sthānā, 1. 74, p. 185.
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