Microcosmology Atom in Jain Philosophy and Modern Science

Author(s): Jethalal S Zaveri, Mahendramuni
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati

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Index
is fissionable and fusionable 104
is infinite 107
is non-transmutable 96, 98
is physical, not psychical 98 meaningful nomenclature of, 85, 153 other important attributes of, 88-93 types of modification
of -, 101
—
(physical order of existence/ matter and energy; one of the six eternal uncreated substances) 74, 79, 147
pudgalästikäya
put (combine; see also gala), 104
rasa (taste), 100, 105
rūkṣa (negative charge), 159, 168, 191, 197
rūpatva/murtatva (sensory perceptibility) 87, 126
rūpī (perceptible) 126, 154, 191 sabda (sound), 100
samjni (organisms endowed with physical mind), 178, 181
samsthāna (configuration/ shape), 93, 100, 124, 169
symmetrical, 93 non-symmetrical,
93
239
sama ya
(time-point; indivisible unit of time), 101, 124
śāśvata (eternal, timeless),97 saukṣmya (subtlety), 114 sat-guna-hani-vṛddhi
(sixfold decrease and increase resulting from the agurulaghu quality of substance), 171, 184 sīta (cold touch; one of the eight types of sensedata of touch), 159, 191, 192
skandha-desa (portion of an aggregate), 113
skandha-pradeśa (minutest undetached portion of
an aggregate, not further divisible), 113 (see also pradeśa)
Snigdha (gluey-equivalent to positive charge; one of the eight types of sense-data of touch), 159, 168, 191, 192
sparsa (touch), 100, 105, 159,
190
sthaulya (grossness), 114 sthāvaras (immobile beings such as plants), 178 sükṣma (subtle) (also see bādara), 112, 115, 123, 187 sūkṣma-bādara
gross), 115
sūkṣma-sükṣma (subtle-sub
tle, i.e., very subtle), 115
(subtle