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Table 2: Comparative Properties of Atoms in Important Systems.
Properties
Greeks
Vaiśeşikas
Nature
Non-living
Non-living
Smallest unit
Smallest unit
Eternal
Eternal
Indivisible
Indivisible
Invisible
Invisible
1.
2. General
3. Shape
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4.
5.
properties
6.
Size Qualities
Forms
Indestructible
Impenetratable Different shapes Different Sizes No colour, taste etc. Matter association
7. Number/Types Many
8. Identification
Indestructible
Impenetratable Space Point, Solid 10-4cm (1/6 sunrays) Touch, taste, colour Smell, Association
4 (Earth, Water, Fire, Air)
By effects
Jainas
Non-living
Smallest unit
Eternal, Non-eternal
Indivisible, divisible
Invisible
Indesructible
Impenetratable, hollow
Space point, Hollow 10-13 cm
T, Ts, C, S
Matter, Energy
Current atom
Non-living
Small unit
Eternal, Changing Divisible
8-Touch, with mass Fundamentally one 16 (T,Ts, C, S)
200 (Due to Promine
nce of Qualities)
By effects
Instrument-trackable
Destructible in energy. Penetratable
Hollow, Spherical, Elliptical
10-8 cm
T, C, Shape
Matter
Association, dissociation Association, Dissociation
Two : 4-Touch, no mass
109
Real
Wilson tracks
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