Book Title: Jaina World of Non Living
Author(s): N L Jain
Publisher: Parshwanath Vidyapith

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________________ The Jaina world of Non-living 22. This commentary is important from the point of view of description of ten types of activities involving vibrations and translational motions with proper illustrations. Besides, this includes all other types of manifestations of mattergy like propulsion, collisions and the like. These activities mainly refer to mattergies whether natural or non-natural Their enumeration indicates how keen observers were the Jaina seers. There is one more reference to twenty five activities in aphorism 6.5 where not only many vibrational activities are enumerated but many non-vibrational activities are also included there with reference to karmic influx. They, however, refer prominently the activities of the living ones. 23. The use of possessive suffix has been explained in terms of nonabsolutistic way to mean difference and non-difference between the manifested and manifestations. This point has been dealt with in many cases earlier too. 24. Ācārya Bhikṣu has mentioned two types of mattergies in his 'Nava Padartha (Nine Categories) : (i) Psychic and (ii) physical. The karmas, bodies and energies (heat, light etc.) are said to be psychic mattergies as they are changeable. In contrast, the rest ones are physical forms or modes of mattergy. However, these are specific forms and not general forms. Loka Prakāsa mentions motion '(gati) and' a-heavy-alightness' (agusulaghutva) as transformations of mattergy. Thus, we have a total of 10 + 1(lustre) + 4(touch etc.) + 2 (above) = 17 (Seventeen) charactoriestic modifications of mattergy. 25. Uttarādhyayana seems to have some repetitions in two cases of (i) bonding or combination (sanyoga, ekatva, union) and (ii) debounding or division (vibhāga, prthaktua-separation). The enumeretion of spacepoints has also been mentioned as an additional mode. If this last one is also added, the total forms of mattergy will turn out to be eighteen. There are six energy forms and twelve material forms as tabulated by Jain. If this is the object of composing two different aphorisms, it should let be known what modifications are mattergic and what are having dual character. The next aphorism indicates about them : 231 Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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