Cosmology Old and New

Author(s): G R Jain
Publisher: Bharatiya Gyanpith

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form of matter or pudgala.
We thus see that the nine realities of the Vaissesikas are covered by the six substances of the Jaina philosophy. Another prominent system of thought Vedānta leaves us with braham and māyā without giving any explanation of 'Space', 'Time' and 'Causality? With the help of the mysterious mechanism of máyā it is not possible to build a world-structure of matter and force.
Our conclusion is, therefore, that the six substances or realities of the Jaina thinkers are (nityāvasthitānyarūpāni) permanent in nature and fixed in number as the sole constituents of the universe
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RŪPIŅAH PUDGALĀH [5] Also in Svetāmbara-sūtras we read:
"otrocafetehtud teafuente" 146
i.e., Matter is rūpi, in other words, it has got touch, taste, smell, and colour.
In Pañcăstikāya-sāra of Sri Kundakunda we read:
उवभोज्जमिदिएहिं य इंदियकाया मणो य कम्माणि। जं हवदि मुत्तमण्णं तं सव्वं पुग्गलं जाणे।।147
(Tr.---That which can be perceived by the senses or the sense organs, the various kinds of bodies of living beings, the physical manas or the brain, the karmic matter are all murta or rūpi objects. Know that all these are forms of matter or pudgala).
COMMENTARY
In the above gāth, the author points out the various forms
146. Sthānanga-sutra, 5.3.1; Vyakhya-prajnapri 7.10. 147. Pañ castikaya-sara 89.