Jain Journal 1990 10

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

Page 36

OCTOBER, 1990
Table 5 Various Types of Fires in Jaina Canons
Santi Suri
Uttaradhyayana
Daśavai- Tattvärthasara Prajñāpanā kālika
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Burning coal Burning coal Burning coal Burning coal Burning coal without without without without without smoke smoke smoke smoke smoke Straw/ Straw/ Straw/ Straw/ Straw/ cowdung cowdung cowdung cowdung cowdung fire fire fire fire
fire Flame Flame Flame Flame Flame Ulkā Ulkā
Ulkā
Ulkā Pure fire Fuelless fire Fuelless fire Fuelless fire Fuelless fire Electric
Electric Electric lightning
lightning lightning Half burnt
Half burnt wood fire
wood fire Common fire Common fire ...
Star fire Star fire
(kanak) Lamp fire Lamp fire
Fire by rubbing Gem fire Nirghat fire
Shastriol has raised a point on the nature of taijasa body, fourth out of five bodies, living beings possess. It is the cause of heat, activity and digestion in the body. It is said to be fire invisible, devoid of impediments, caused by supernatural powers and luminating others while luminous by itself. It consists of an aggregate of infinite real atoms which are infinite times the number of atoms in the earlier bodies. Due to dense packing, it becomes finer. This luminous body is made up of energy skandhas or taijasa varganās4? whose size is between ahāraka (heat ?) and bhāṣā varganās. This point has been commented upon earlier. Jain and Javeri 43 have called it electrical or electromagnetic in nature. This is found in every living beings from birth to death. Perchance heat or āhāra is converted into this energy for the body to be active and living. It may itself be inactive but it makes the others
Shastri, J. M. L., op. cit., p. 228. 13 Nemicandra Cakravarti, op. cit., p. 268. 18 (a) Jain, G. R., op. cit., p. 57; (b) Javeri, J. S., op. cit, p. 116.