Scientific Secrets of Jainism

Author(s): Nandighoshvijay
Publisher: Research Institute of Scientific Secrets from Indian Oriental Scriptures Ahmedabad

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Colour: The Wonderful Charecterisite Of Sound
According to him, assemblages of coloured particles produced by sound united with one another and underwent a transformation into an assemblage of particles of a different colour. They perhaps followed the rules of sandhi (combination of letters) of the Sanskrit language. In his article, he has given illustrations of this transformation. On the basis of his experiences he says that the Sanskrit language is very scientific.
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Really speaking in languages of the world other than Sanskrit, pronunciations do not agree with the letters of a word. While in the Sanskrit language pronunciation is in complete agreement with the letters of a word. e.g. The English language has the words - know, now and no. The pronunciation of the word "know" is in complete variance with the letters of the word. The letter 'k' is unpronounced (silent). The letter 'w' is also silent. In the word 'now', 'o' is pronounced as "a", that does not agree with the letters. The pronunciation of the word 'no' is in accordance with its letters. But when the letters of the word 'no' are pronounced separately, they are pronounced as 'en', 'o'. Thus the sound form of its letters is different from its combined sound form. In the English language, pronunciations differ from speaker to speaker. Some pronounce 'the' as 'DHEE' () and some pronounce it as 'DHA' (), while Hindi speaking people pronounce it also as "DA" (a). None of these pronunciations agree with the letters - T.H.E.
It is not so in the Sanskrit language. In Sanskrit language, words are pronounced as they are written. No consonant or vowel is silent in the pronunciation. Of course the vowels and the consonants join according to the rules of sandhi and they change their form. But the words are pronounced as they are written. Not a single letter, vowel or consonant remains unpronounced e.g. 14: 315 3ufafa Rāmaḥ Atra Upavisati. This sentence is pronounced according to the letters. But when the words are joined by the rules of sandhi, the sentence is pronounced as: saufagfa. Rāmōtrō'pavisati. In this sentence. 31 of is followed by the visrga (:) and both are changed into 3 because both are followed by a vowel 31. Same way 31 of and B of fifa, both are changed into 3. Both the 3 are to be surely pronounced, while the vowel 3 of disappears by the rules of sandhi, so it is not pronounced. Such strict observance of rules is not known in any other language. Of course, the languages derived from the Sanskrit language retain to keep these rules and therefore for a systematic and scientific study of colours of sound, the Sanskrit language is the best medium.