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JAIN PIIILOSOPHY & MODERN SCIENCE given in Jainology as follows:
"The reason why numerous 'paramanus' unite together to form a homogeneous body is the properties of adhesiveness and dryness possessed by them Union between dry and dry or adhesive and adhesive 'paramanus' takes place provided the difference in the intensities of their dryness or adhesiveness is more than two units No such proviso exists for the union of dry with adhesive 'paramanus' 'Paramanus' with a single unit of intensity of dryness or adhesiveness never take part in any union "
Just as Jain Philosophers have given the dryness and adhesiveness as the sole cause of union, the scientists have shown that the positive and negative electric charges of material particles are responsible for uniting the constituent parts of the substances. According to Jainology each and every ‘paramanu' possesses either dryness or adhesiveness and according to science positive and negative electric charges are existing in every substance It appears, then that both Jain Philosophers and modern scientists state one and the same principle only in different words One has preferred to call it adhesiveness and dryness while the others use the names positive and negative charge, but they both mean to describe the same primordial property of matter Discussing the subject of lightening it is said in Sarvarthsı (Ch. 5— Sutra 34) that "lightning is the result of the properties of dryness and adhesiveness possessed by 'paramanus'" It is clear from this that positive or nega
