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ATOM IN JAIN
PHILOSOPHY
becomes an aggregate 1 e skandha and not skandha
desa
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11) Skandha-pradeśa Pradesa means a point, ie indivisible part. Therefore the smallest indivisible portion of an aggregate is Skandha-pradesa Again the division is merely conceptual ie the portion is not a detached free portion but an imaginary one in the aggregate
iv) Paramāņu The word is derived from 'Parama' and Aņu' Parama means the ultimate and Anu means small (particle) According to Jain microcosmology, paramānu is the ultimate elementary particle, the origin of the whole material existence Thus the infinitesimally small, indivisible and free 1 e unattached to another particle of matter is paramānu Paramanus are the ultimate building blocks which by mutual combination produce the whole of material universe So long as it is considered to be a portion of an aggregate it is pradesa, while in its free ie unattached state, it is paramāņu
E SIX TYPES OF MATTER
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1) Sthula-sthula (or būdara-bādara) means very gross
u) Sthūla (or būdara) means gross
11) Sthūla-suksma or (bādara-suksma) means gross fine
iv) Sukşma-sthula means fine gross v) Sukşma means fine
vi) Suksma-suksma means very fine
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