Perspectives in Jaina Philosophy and Culture

Author(s): Satish Jain, Kamalchand Sogani
Publisher: Ahimsa International

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less pit? To answer these questions, very clnborate and crpcnsive experiments were performed in USA as 7 result of which tlic number of new particles emerging from nucleus has increascu fantastically By 1962, their number had been counied upto one hundred Some of their names Jrc ncutrons, protons, pions, positrons, muons, clcctrons, ncutrinos 'ind their anti-particles such as anti-protons and so on Millions of photogriphs were taken and even those particles were recorded which Inved for 15 small a period 7 onc-len billionth of a second-10-11 second and then died but the Qurrh remains undiscoscred We congratulate the scientists for their hard perscrierence and uncing labor If some div, tlic Quick is discovered, it will be the nom of the Juins.nd the olume occupied by it will he the unit of space the spicc point or I'rades:
The pace has to varieties, Loi 75h1 and Alolakachi The constituent clements of the world are the infinite number of J1175 and the infinite number of the physical obiceis principles of motion ind rest and tinc-ill contained in sprcc--the sitth. The spicc which is coctensive with these objects is called LohaLeshr But this is onki a part of the real spice Beyond this, there is Alolat ishin or Anintalzh7 7lus is pure spice There are no objects animnic or inanimate in this infinite rerion
For measurement of celestial spice, two units are in use They are Yojana und Raju corresponding to miles and light years in order 10 csilunte the magnitude of Yojana, we consider the following table of length in Vedic Iterature
24 Angulo ilusta--18 inches
4 Hast97-1 Dindi or Dhanus- 6 feet 2000 Dhanus-1 Koca-12000 nt or 25/11 miles 4 Kosa-1 Yojanas 100/11 miles or 9 miles 160 yds
This valuc is further corroborated from a Sukin of Rigicon, according to Which light travels at the rate of 2702 yojanas per half Nimesha As per llindu Puranas,
15 Nimesas1 Kasthul 30 Kasthar-1 Kala 30 Kal=1 Muhurta or 48 minutes Thus the value of onc Nimcs comes to be 1/4 second
Taking the voluc of Yojana as 100/11 miles and half Nimesa as 1/4 second, the velocity of light comes to be 1,87,770 miles per second 'This is the same valuc as arrived at by modern science
In order to calculate the value of Rajju in miles, we begin with the quotition given by the German Professor Von Glassnap in his famous book "Der Janismus"