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they increase in length one passes the rainbow : violet becomes blue, blue becomes orange and orange becomes red. When they lengthen" beyond that they become too long for the human eye to see and the body appears dark. The red waves are only
-- of an inch long whereas the violet waves are only half 30,000 as long, i.e., - of an inch. The waves of other colours
60,000 have lengths intermediate between these values. On the average it may be said that light waves have lengths about 1 of the
100 diameter of human hair, the latter being about 1/400 of an inch. If a lightwave differs from another light-wave in length even by an infinitesimal amount they are said to belong to two different colours. Thus from this point of view the number of colours is truly infinite and so is the version of Jain Acaryas as quoted on page 120 ante.
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SUTRA 24. शब्दबन्धसौम्यस्थौल्यसंस्थानभेद
तमश्छायाSSतपोद्योतवन्तश्च ॥२४।। SABDA-BANDHA-SAUKSHM YA-STHAULYASANSTHANA-BHEDA-TAMASCHĀYA
TAPODYOTAVANTASCA. [24] (PT-OFFET-FITAFUT-FRTCU-FESTG-C- :-OT4T-317419-JETTA - वन्तश्च पुद्गला भवन्ति ।)
Manifestations of pudgulu (Malier) take the form of sound. union, l'incness, grossness, figure, divisibility, darkness, shade or image, sunshine and moonlight.
In the Clarachurana sutra of the Svetambaras the idea of tinis sutra together with that of the previous sutra is expressed in the following words :
