Scientific Secrets of Jainism

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

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Scientific Secrets of Jainism
the palate, the tongue and the teeth is called Sadja.
2. The note that acts like a bull (Rṣabha or Vṛṣabha) is Ṛsabha. There is a clear definition of Asabha. It says that the wind produced from the navel strikes in the throat and the head and bellows like a bull. That is the reason it is called Ṛsabha or Vrsabha.
3. That which has smell called Gāndhära or that which carries smell is called Gāndhāra. The wind produced in the navel and struck in the heart and the throat makes the Gāndhāra note producing many varieties of smells.
4. That which is produced in the centre of the body is called Madhyama. When the wind produced in the navel passes through the chest and the heart to return to the navel, it produces a heavy note. That is called the Madhyama note.
5. That which is the fifth among the seven notes, namely Şaḍja etc. is Pañcama or the note that is produced in the five places namely, the navel, the chest, the heart, the throat and the head, is called Pañcama.
6. The note that joins the above mentioned and other notes to one another is called Dhaivata or the Raivata note.
7. Where notes are produced or sit side by side, the joint note is called Niṣāda. This note beats all the rest. Its god is the Sun. 20
Telling the names of special/chief places of production of all the seven above-mentioned notes, the author of Sri Anuyōgadvāra sūtra says that the Şadja note is produced from the forefront of the tongue, Ṛṣabha is produced from the chest, Gāndhāra is produced from the throat, Madhyama is produced from the central portion of the tongue, Pañcama is produced from the nose, Dhaivata is produced by joint efforts of teeth and lips and that note is Niṣāda in production of which eye-brows are contracted.21
All souls from the two sensed to the five-sensed, having a tongue, can produce sound/voice. Of course, we cannot hear sounds of minute two-sensed organisms because they are infrasonic or ultrasonic. Notes of all souls are among the aforementioned seven notes or they are in form of combination of various notes. The author himself shows clear voices of the nearest souls as examples of the above-mentioned seven notes.