Jainism Precepts and Practice

Author(s): Puranchand Nahar, Krishnakant Ghosh
Publisher: Caxton Publications

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PREDICAMENTS.
Pudgala
The Pudgala-matter is also classified in the following manner according to other Classified. modes of its being :
(a) Sthula-Sthula () or the Grossest of the gross, as, for example,logs of wood or blocks of stone; i.e., solids which can be cut into equal parts.
(b) Sthula (a) or the Gross-simple, milk or water, i. e., liquids, which are restorable to their original mass-forms even after their measurable divisions.
(c) Sthula-sukshma (EFT) or the Compound of the gross and the fine (e g. gases which is visible in the light of the sun or the moon but cannot be caught, as for example smokes and the like)
(d) Sukshma-Sthula (-) or the Compound of the fine and the gross is what is not visible to the eye but is perceptible by the auditory or olfactory nerves; as, for example, music and smell.
(e) Sukshma () or the Fine.
(f) Sukshma-Sukshma (THE) or the Finest of the fine, the ultimate atoms which admit of no further divisions. These finest of the fine, are mere simples as oppos
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