Jaina World of Non Living

Author(s): N L Jain
Publisher: Parshwanath Vidyapith

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The Jaina world of Non-living
contexts. However, the term here should be taken to mean form, embodiment or sense-perceptibility on the authority of sacrred scriptures spoken by the Enlighened ones and reduced to writing by their chief disciples. It is said there, "Rūpi-dravyam Mārti-dravyam". Thus, mattergic entities are embodied or material. 2. The word 'mūrti (form)' or material can be defined as the transformations in the substances in the form of colour, taste, smell, touch and various shapes like circular, triangular, quadrilateral, rectangular etc.
Alternatively, the word 'rūpa' should mean a specific attribute of an entity which is perceptible by the sense of sight. It could be either colour, shape or both. 4. Q. Does this specific meaning of colour or shapes of this term mean non-inclusion of attributes of taste etc. ? A. No, these attributes are inseparably related. Therefore, they are included in the term 'rūpa'.' 5. Q. The word 'Rūpi' has a possessive suffix 'in' attached to the word 'rūpa'. This suffix is possible in case of entities which are different from each other. For example, a man with a staff is known as 'staffed'. Here,
and staff are separate before their combination. This type of separate existence is not observed in the case of substances and their qualities like colour etc. These are simply the modes of the substance. Hence, the use of possessive suffix is not justified in the aphorism 5.5.
This is not correct. The difference between substances and modes could be proved with some aspects. It is agreed that substantively, the colour etc. are not observed separate from their substance. However, we observe modally that there are changes in colours etc. in the substances while they remain permanent. But modally, there is observable difference between substance and its attributes on the following points : (a) The substance is permanent while attributes are changeable
being produced The substance is beginningless while attributes have beginning. The substance has a positive assertion while attributes have negative assertion.
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