Jain Journal 1969 07

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

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JAIN JOURNAL
(3) Dravyatva--changeability ; capacity by which it is always
changing in modification.
(4) prameyatva-knowability ; capacity of being known by some
one or being the subject-matter of knowledge.
(5) aguru-laghutva guna-individuality ; capacity by which one
substance or attribute does not become another and the substance does not lose the attributes whose grouping forms the substance itself.
(6) pradeśatva—spaciality ; capacity of having some kind of ex
tension or location in space.
Aguru-laghu term is used in four different senses in Jaina philosophy. The first, aguru-laghu-nāma-karma, is a sub-type of body-building (nāma-) karman. The second, aguru-lahgu guņa, is the fifth common attribute of all the six substances stated above. The third, aguru-laghu-sādguni-hāni-vștti-paryāya, is the first type of stationary wave-motion with which we are concerned here. The fourth one is aguru-laghutva, one of the eight special attributes of the emancipated soul (siddha jiva).
Aguru-laghu-sād-guni-hāni-vștti-paryāya makes explicit all the abovementioned six principal common attributes in all the six substances in all the states of their existence, in the past, present and future, in brief, eternally.
Aguru-laghu-sād-guņī-hāni-vștti-paryāya (wave motion) by its repeated formation of crest and trough (growing and decaying of crest) every instant in the parts of substance fulfils the condition of origination of a new mode and destruction of the old mode but the basic substance persists through this change of appearing and disappearing. The triple state existence (utpāda-vyaya-dhrauvya) which is the chatarcteristic of sat is fulfilled in this way. Sat or astitva means to be in existence. This is the first common attribute of all substances.
Darvya or substance always possesses attributes and undergoes modification. Sat or existent means permanance with change, i.e., being and becoming. This is the characteristic of dravyat va the third principal common attribute of all the substances as noted above.
This stationary wave-motion exhibits the existence of substance by reflecting away the contacting external waves to be tuned up by the