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Jainism : Through Science paramāņu-units of words are called Paryva-Jāta.
3. If paramānu-units of Bhāsă Varganā released according to Utpatti-Jāta process, collide with other parmāņu-units of Bhaşă Varganā that are in a series around the source of sound and convert them into words, these newly converted paramāņu-units of words are called Antara-Jāta.
4. Whether they are in an order of series or in a disorder of series, some of the paramāņu-units of Bhāṣā Vargaņā get converted into words and then they enter the hole of the ear and affect the hearing centre in the mind. They are called Grahaņa Jāta.
These units of paramāņus, called Grahana Jāta have infinite space-points (pradesas). (One pradeśa means the volume of space occupied by a single separate paramānu). They occupy space consisting of innumerable prades'as. The life-span of these paramānu-units consists of countless SAMAYAS. In Jain philosophy SAMAYA is the extremely minute unit of time. Even though it seems impossible to calculate how many SAMAYAS make a second, Shri Nandlal Jain has calculated that one second contains approximately a minimum number of 10380 to 10500 SAMAYAS. These paramānu-units have different types of colour, smell, touch and taste.
Paramānu-units of words that do not enter the ear, dissolve either in the original paramānu-units of Bhāṣā Vargaņā or into other types of paramāņu-units.
The modern well established classical physics fully accepts the theory that sound is in the form of waves. But according to the logical viewpoint of Jain philosophy, conceived with subtle
intelligence, sound is composed of particios.
The propagation, reflection, defraction, interference and other phenomena of sound being the subject matter of a separate research article, we do not discuss them here.
We return to our original question whether light and electromagnetic waves which have a velocity 3,00,000 kms/sec. are absolutely in the form of waves or particles.
