First Principal of the Jaina Philosophy

Author(s): Hirachand Liladhar Zaveri
Publisher: Jaina Vividh Sahitya Shastramala

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THE JAIN PHILOSOPHY
matter. Its Sanskrit name is vibhava-dravya-vyanjanaparyaya (of pudagala).
4. When one kind of taste is transformed into another (if sugar, for instance, is made salt) it is an example of the fourth kind of modification as applied to matter. It is called vibhava-guna-vyanjana-paryaya (of pudgala).
CHAPTER VI.
On Paryayarthika-Nayas.
PARYAYARTHIKA-NAYA is that which has paryaya • for its cause; or that of which the purpose is served
by paryaya.
It is divided into six classes as follows:
1. The first division of the paryayarthika-naya deals with the modifications in a condition which has neither beginning nor end. For example, certain mountains, like Meru, wherein the intermingling of the changes in its substance never takes the substance beyond the space occupied by the mountain; hence the position occupied has neither beginning nor end. Its Sanskrit name is anadi-nitya-suddha-paryayarthika naya.