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216 : Scientific Contents in Prākrta Canons
It is the cause of heat, activity and digestion in the body. It is said to be fire invisible, devoid of impediments, caused by supernatural powers and luminating others while luminous by itself. It consists of an aggregate of infinite atoms (real) which are infinite times the number of atoms in earlier bodies. Due to dense packing, the overall size becomes finer. The luminous body is made up of energy aggregates or Taijasa variforms (varganās ) whose size is between āhāraka (ejectable, heat ) and bhāsā (sound) variforms?4. Jain and Javeri75 have called it as electrical or electro-magnetic in nature. This is found in every living beings from birth to death and even post-death state. Many have called it as caloric (heat ?). Per chance, heat generated by āhāra (food) is converted into this energy for the body to be active and living. It may itself be inactive but it makes the others active. Thus, the Taijasa body is thermal or electrical form of the fire aggregates. Akalanka76 mentions a number of times that heat and light are simultaneous in sunlight and they cause sweating and digestion due to heat content. He also mentions that fire bakes the earths, gets absorbed in materials like metals etc, in addition.
He has defined Taijaşa as white lustrous ( Prabhā ) light. It could be described in fourteen ways somewhat different from descriptions of today. Accordingly, it is as white as cronch. It produces anger and happiness in the living ( due to digestional secretions ) and creates burning and combustion in others. Its size is innumerableth part of an angula, i. e., less than 10-15 cm. It is infinite and universal. These points are based on the aggregatal nature of the fire body. It exists in the form of fine particle basically and forms aggregates. This description requires deeper studies for comparative evaluation.
Thacker77 has raised one more point regarding the livingness of light and electricity, i.e., fire energies. The commentator of Haribhadrahas given many arguments for the livingness of all the above four types of aggregates including air and fire on the ground of their heat content, growth under
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