Scientific Foundations Of Jainism

Author(s): K V Mardia
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Pvt Ltd

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THE SCIENTIFIC FOUNDATIONS OF JAINISM
Darwin, 85
Davies, P.C.W., 93
decay, 6, 26; see karmic decay deceit, 39; in purification stages, 58; in driving, 74, 75; see passions, the four Digambara, 4, 97
Diwali, 100
Dixit, K.K., 109 dynamic: medium, 29, 30, 36, 86; karmic process 11, 11, 40, 41, 54; nonviolence, 46; forces, 43; omniscience, 55, 59, 60, 72, 98;
earth-bodies, 20, 24
e-component, see feeling producing
component
Einstein, A., iv, 86, 93, 110
electromagnetic force, 89
elementary particles: Jain 31; modern physics, 85, 86, 88:
energy, 10, 17, 18, 19, 27, 55, 92: potential in karmic decay, 14; of soul, 28, 31, 37, 39, 53, 72; -obstructing component, 26, 35: and matter. 30, 31, 86; four passions, 55: enlightenment, of Mahavira, 98 environmental determining karmic component (h-component), 26, 36, 38 equilibrium, 23; long-term state of, 14: stationary medium, 29, 86: d' Espagnat, B., 85, 110 evolution, 16, 85
exchangeability, of matter and energy. 86 existents: holistic principle, 82; nine reals, 14; six, 29, 30, 86;
faith: right, 4, 72; vanishing, mixed, 56, 57, 64; as one of the three jewels, 73, 77; Einstein's, 93
f-component, see body-producing com
ponent
feeling-producing karmic component (c-component), 26, 35: effect of, 38: Feynman diagrams, 89
fig. 47
fine, fine-fine, fine-gross, 31, 32 fire-bodies, 20, 24
flavours, of quarks, 88, 92; in Jain particle physics, 32, 33
forces: super-, 86; energy, 10; in nature, 89; magnetic, 16; dynamic and station
ary, 30, 32; fundamental, 86, 89: Four Passions, see passions, four freedom-longing catalyst, 10, 25 fusion, karmic, see karmic fusion
Gamow, G., 85, 110
Gandhi, Mahatma 2, 3 Gautama, Indrabhuti, 47, 98, 100 g-component, see longevity determining
component
von Glasenapp, H., 43 gluttony, 39, 40
gluon, 90
God, Jain arguments against 4, 16:
go-mode, 29, 30
Gosala, 98, 99
gravitation, force 10, 86, 90 graviton 90
greed 39, 40, 61, 62; degrees 43; one of the four passions, 39 in driving, 74, 75; in purification stages, 55, 58; time period, 43; see passions, the four; Gribbin, J. 85, 110
Gross, gross-fine, gross-gross 31, 32
Haldane, J.B.S., 83, 110 Haribhadra, 103
Hawking, S. W., 93, 110 Hay, S.N., 2, 110
h-component, see environmental deter
mining component
heavenly: state, 23, 24; being, 23 Heisenberg, 92
hellish: state, 23, 24; being, 23 helplessness, 70
Hemacandra, 103, 109 higher vows, 58
holistic principle, 80, 85: analogy; elephant and the six blind men, 81, 82; science, 85
human: state, 23, 24; average, 19, 34 hydrogen atom, 87
impermanence, 70
impurity, 17, 23, 44, 70 insecticides, 49
insentient object, 18, 19, 23 insight:-defiling (a,-) component, 25:
practical effect of, 38; rarity of true. 70; true, 55-58, 60, 72; qualities of true, 67