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Technical Sciences in Jaina Canons :
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science, clothes, meditation, physics, chemistry, botany, zoology, cosmology, astrology, medicine and atomic theories along with the constituents of the world. They also deal with stories involving many subjects of science, village industries, civil engineering and subject of learning. The secondary canons deal with biology or jīva and universe. Some texts deal with civil engineering, temples, buildings, physiology, measures and edibles, etc. The Pro-canons deal with jīva, physically and volitionally. They also have mathematics, description of death, psychology, foods, deaths, meditation and austerities. Tertiary Literature
The Tertiary Literature was roughly composed post-683 years of salvation of Mahāvīra. It may have both the above categories of literature. In the multi-exposition category, it consists of (1) the most famous text of Tattvārtha-sūtra and its many commentaries later on, (2) Kundakunda literature and its commentaries, (3) Commentary literature on canonical scriptures in different periods, (4) Dhavalā and Jaya-dhavală commentaries and (5) Legendary literature (Purāņas). This contains descriptions of many fields of science in somewhat more elaborative way. Anuyogadvāra-sūtra is also important for units of length, mass and time along with two-fold classification of atoms and their bondings. Exposition-based Scientific Literature
The Jaina Seers have composed a large amount of scientific literature in post-Āryarakṣita Era. Ambalal Shah' has presented a list of such literature on 27 subjects including 16 subjects of traditional and non-traditional sciences shown as below. This list cannot be called exhaustive, as large amount of literature has been lately found. Current Literature
Many scholars of this century have made an attempt to present different sciences in Jinistic literature in their books/booklets and articles. Some of which could be mentioned here:
(1) Cosmology: Old and New (1942), (2) Tao of Jaina Sciences (1990), (3) Enigma of Universe (Hindi), 1969, (4) Atomic Theory of Jains (1996), (5) Neuroscience and Karma (Mahendra), (6) Scientific Contents in Prakrit Canons (1996), (7-8) Two books by Nandī Ghośa Vijaya, (9) Jivana Kya Hai (2002), (10) Vāstu-vidyā (1998) and many others.
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