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340 : Scientific Contents in Prākrta Canons
Mimāmsakas
N. V. and Jaina Schools they are produced by efforts
of different parts of the body. 7. They become unmanifest (iv) They do not exist before
rather than destroyed be- or after they are pronounced. fore or after the pronun- There can be no obscuring ciation.
agent for eternal and pervasive entity. One must accept the concept of prior and destructional non-existence in this case. (v) They are receivable by
ears. 8. Humans only manifest ( vi ) The human sounds are them.
individualised ones. 9. Words are not many. It is Many peoples listen to the
just an illusion like experi- same words at different plaencing many suns in water ces indicating manyness of
pots or different places. words. 10. The words are not defor- The words are transformed/
med, they are replaced by deformed grammatically.
others. 11. The sounds have no qua- Sounds have qualities of loud
lities as they are eternal. It ness etc. which could be reis only a sounding effect. fined or modified.
Nyāya-Vaiseșika school is, on the other hand, on the other extreme. They postulate it as non-eternal one and not mattergy but quality of the reality called space. It is perceivable by sense of hearing, destructible by cause and effect, productible by similar or dissimilar concussion, disjunction and by word themselves and part pervasive23.
The Jainas represent the third school. They refute the first two postulates of Nyāya school. Firstly, they do not agree words to be quality of space which is non-corporeal. For them,
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