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JAINA PHILOSOPHY : AN INTRODUCTION
8. Painting - As the painting over a canvas or mural
painting. 9. Dovetail Joint - As joints in pieces of timber. 10. Ligamentary Joint - Such joints as of a living body. 11. Union of Bodies - Union of bodies more than one in
number. 12. Natural Union having Beginning - That natural union
which has a beginning as has resulted from a definite cause, such as the union of different colours in a rainbow, is called natural union having a beginning. Formation of clouds, production of lightning etc. are
included in this class. 13. Beginningless Union - Eternal union such as the union
of the different parts of substances like the medium
of motion, the medium of rest, space and the like. Fineness and Grossness :
Each of these manifestations is of two categories : extreme and relative.' The atoms furnish the example of extreme fineness and the universe itself constitutes the example of extreme grossness. There is nothing smaller than an atom and nothing bigger than the universe in the world of matter. Material objects vary relatively to each other in quantity. For instance, a coconut is bigger than an orange and so on. Figure :
Figure is nothing but the shape of a body. It may be regular, circular, triangular, rectangular and the like; or it may be an irregular body like the shape of clouds. Divisibility :
It is of six kinds : 2 1. Separation - As sawing a piece of wood. 2. Grinding - As making wheat into flour.
1. Tattvārtha-rāja-vārtika, V. 24. 14-5. 2. Tattvārtha-räja-vārtika, V.24. 18.
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