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The Jaina world of Non-living
12-13. There are two kinds of configuration or shape - (i) regular and (2) irregular. The regular shape has definite geometrical configuration like circular, triangular, rectangular, square and spherical etc. Any configuration different from them is called irregular one. It is illustrated by different shapes of clouds which can not be defined accurately.
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The division has six varieties (i) cut-pieces, (ii) powder (iii) broken pieces, (iv) threshed material, (v) layered material and (vi) sparking materials produced through sparking and specific sounds. These varieties represent different processes of division through which different types of divided materials are obtained. In modern terms, division is a physical process. The different varieties can be illustrated as below: (i) Cut-pieces (utkara) can be illustrated by wooden pieces through a sawing machine or hands etc.
(ii) Powder (Cūrṇa) can be represented by normal or fried flours of barley, wheat etc. produced by hand/mechanic grinding.
(iii) Broken pieces (Khanda) are represented by different parts of earthen pots due to breaking.
(iv) Threshed material (Cūrṇikā) is represented by pulses of the black and green lentils by grinding and threshing.
(v) Layered material is represented by layers of mica sheet separated manually or mechanically.
(vi) Materials produced through Sparks-cum-sounds (Anucatana) are represented by smithereens which are produced as sparks when red hot iron is hammered in blacksmith's workshop.
15. The darkness is the cause of obstruction of vision. The lamp light removes it and serves as illuminator of objects.
16. The shadow is caused by the obscuring of light. The materials like body etc. are light obscurers. They cause shadow (or image).
17. There are two kinds of shadows: (i) virtual image in the plane miror showing mouth etc. to be laterally inverted (i.e. left side getting right and vice-versa) and without the change of color etc. and (ii) uninverted image like shadows or image on a modern cinema screen. They are observed through mediums other than miror.
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