Book Title: Outlines of Jainism
Author(s): J L Jaini, F W Thomas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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________________ 90 OUTLINES OF JAINISM forth know to be gross-fine masses ; fine-gross are called those molecules which are the objects of the four senses; fine, again, are the molecules which compose the matter of karma; and fine-fine, observe, are those which surpass these last-named. 29. TETA UIT MÅ HE DITUAHELI खंधंतरिदं दव्वं परमाणुं तं वियाणे हि ॥ Pañchāstikāya, 81. The substance (dravya) which has one taste, one colour, one smell, and two kinds of touch, is a cause of the production of sound, but is itself soundless, and is distinct from molecule (skandha), know that to be ultimate atom (paramāņu). 30. TOETATUT 3THETTWAYET acti असमुहदो ववहारा णिछयणयदो असंखदेसो वा ॥ ९ ॥ Dravyu-sangraha, 9. This soul through expansion or contraction becomes big or small according to the body occupied by it, except in samudghāta (the condition when some particles (pradeśas) of the soul expand and go out of the body and then come back to it, as in the case of the āhāraka body). This is from the practical point of view: but from the real point of view the soul has innumerable spatial units (pradeśas). 31. TheTTahutat aanaa 119€ 11 Tattvārtha-stra, v, 16. In respect of the expanding and contracting of its particles, it (the soul] is as a lamp the light of which equally fills a small and a large space). 32. JfaredeT Y H T99TT: 1190 || Ibid. 17. The support of motion and rest respectively is the service of dharma and adharma.

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