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Black, yellow, white, red, green, mixed in many ways:" the diversity of the colours which you see is the beauty of Matter.
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Jérôme Petit, Banarasīdās's Karmachattīsī
आमल तिक्तकषाय कटु, क्षार मधुर रसभोग ।
ए पुल के पांच गुण, षट मानहिं सब लोग ॥ १० ॥ amala tikta kaṣāya kaṭu, kṣāra madhura rasa-bhoga. e pudgala ke pañca-guṇa, şaṛ mānahi saba loga.
Sour, bitter, astringent, pungent, salty and sweet are the enjoyments of taste. Although there are five attributes of Matter, everybody considers them as six.12
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तातो सीरो चकिनो, रुखो नरम कठोर ।
हलको अरु भारीसहज, आठ फरस गुणजोर ॥ ११ ॥
tāto sīro cakino, rukho narama kathora.
halako aru bhārī-sahaja, atha pharasa guna-jora.
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Hot, cold, viscous, rough, soft, hard, light and heavy are the eight strong attributes of touch, 13
जो सुगन्ध दुर्गन्धगुण, सो पुद्गल को रूप ।
अब पुद्गल परजाय की महिमा कहीं अनूप ॥ १२ ॥
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jo sugandha-durgandha-guna, so pudgala ko rūpa. aba pudgala parajāya kī, mahimā kahō anupa.
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The nature of Matter has the attributes of good smell and bad smell. Now, I expound the incomparable greatness of the modes of Matter.15
"The Tattvärthavṛtti of Śrutasägarasüri (henceforth STV) gives: varnah pañca-prakāraḥ kṛṣṇa-nila-pitaśukla-lohita-bhedat (5.23). The mixture of colours seems a novelty added by the author.
12 STV 5.23 gives the following list of tastes: rasaḥ pañca-prakāraḥ tikta-āmla-kaļu-madhura-kaşayabhedat (M. K. JAIN 1949). Salty taste (kşdra) is missing. N. TATIA gives the following commentary: "There are five kinds of taste: bitter, sour, astringent, acidic and sweet" (TS 5.23), pungent (katu) is now missing
13 tätä < Skt. tāpta; sīra < Skt. śītala; cakino is not traced in the dictionaries consulted; rukho < Skt. rūkṣa; narama is a Persian word; kathora Skt.; to define halaka MCGREGOR gives only an evasive "cf. laghu-" as etymological explanation; bhari is the Hindi word. ŚTV 5.23 gives the following list to compare: sparso "staprakāraḥ mrdu-karkasa-guru-laghu-fita-una-snigdha-rūkṣa-bhedāt.
14 STV 5.23: gandho dviprakāraḥ surabhi-durabhi-bhedāt. Here stops the enumeration of the twenty attributes (guna) of Matter.
15 paryaya is traced by Monier-Williams in its Jaina context: "(with Jainas) the regular development of a thing and the end of this development" (MONIER-WILLIAMS p. 605b). It is in fact an important element connected with the substance (dravya) and its qualities (guna). "The Jainas hold that each and every entity is related to all entities other than itself in the universe in some relation or other. These relations are called paryayas (modes) of the entity" (TATIA 1951: 70). "The ordinary person distinguishes between good and bad, pleasant and unpleasant, and so forth, because he has not yet perceived the true relation between substance (dravya) and modes (paryaya); thus he retains a deep attachment for things which please the senses and an aversion for those which do not" (JAINI 1979: 152).
