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INDIAN PHILOSOPHY
(6) The part characterised by the greatest misery (dusama-dusamā)
It is noteworthy that the Jainas have not recognised the possibility of the following two parts: (1) the part characterised by absolute absence of both happiness and misery, (2) the part characterised by exactly equal quantities of both happiness and misery. The abovementioned six parts in the reverse order constitute the six parts of the period of progress. During the period of progress the bodily strength, bodily height and life-span gradually increase. During the period of decadence the living beings gradually lose their bodily strength, bodily height and life-span. Each such period of progress and decadence is ten crores of crores of ocean Time. The two periods together constitute one complete round of Time Cycle. This one round is called Kalpa:
Notes
1. The Mysterious Universe, p. 20, 2. History of Westem Philosophy (Bertrand Russel), p. 229. 3. For details one may refer to A Manual of Modern Scholastici
Philosophy (Cardinal Mercier), Vol. I, pp. 145-150. 4. History of Philosophy : Eastern and Western (Radhakrishnan), • Vol. II, p. 206.
5. Philosophy for Pleasure (Hector Hawton), p. 44. 6. A History of Philosophy (Thilly), pp. 324-326. 7. A History of Modern Philosophy (Hoffding), p. 305. 8. Present Philosophical Tendencies (Perry), p. 250. 9. History of Philosophy : Eastern and Western (Radhakrishnan), pp
215-216. 10. Ibid., p. 242. 11. The Evolution of Scientific Thought (d’Abro), p. 72.. 12. A History of Philosophy (Thilly), p. 421. . 13. Kant's first Critique (Cassirer), p. 267. 14. Appearance and Reality (Oxford, 1959), p. 18.
1959) D. 18. 15. Ibid., p. 36. 16. Elements of Metaphysics (Taylor), pp. 243-255. 17. Hundred Years of Philosophy (Passmore), pp. 106-107. 18. Ibid., p. 274. 19. Ibid., p. 341.
