Jain Philosophy and Modern Science

Author(s): Nagrajmuni
Publisher: Anuvrat Samiti

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66 JAIN PIILOSOPHY & MODERN SCIENCE Canons there are five colours: blue, yellow, white, black and red, five tastes, bitter, sour, sweet, pungent and astringent (kashaya), two smells. pleasant and unpleasant, eight touches soft, hard, heavy, light, cold, hot, adhesive and dry In a single 'paramanu', there is one colour, one smell, one taste and two touches. But in a large or gross. aggregate of matter therc are all the five colours, the five tastes, the two smells and the eight kinds of touches From the stand-point of touch-data, Lhere are two kinds of aggregates—those having four touches and those having eight touches The sincst aggregates of matter are possessed of four touches only In such aggregates, the following four out of the above eight will be found, viz, cold, hot, adhesive and dry. It may even be said after deep consideration, that these four kinds of louches are the only original or fundamental touches of matter In a 'paramanu' only two out of these four will be found 1e a 'paramanu' will be either cold or hot and adhesive or dry In a single paramanu none of the following four touches viz. soft, hard, heavy and light is to be found The conclusion is, that these four lands of touches arc not original but arc acqured touches No iulcs governing the change and growth of these touches are available, though thero must be some such rules, or else how was it that some aggregates formed by the combination of inÜnite number of 'paramanus' are found to possess only four kinds of touches and somo become possess