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THE JAINA
PHILOSOPHY
In Niyamsara, 24 Kundkunda has illustrated these six classes thus
1) Very gross are very large solid aggregates of matter such as mountains) which may be broken and divided and also such bodies which can be physically transported (without a container)
11) Gross are large aggregates of matter which cannot be broken and which have to be carried in containersi e liquids
11) Aggregates which can neither be cut nor broken nor can be physically transported but are visible e g light, shadow, image etc are gross fine
iv) Fine gross are those aggregates which are not visible but can be perceived by other four senses -ultra visible but infra sensual e g gases
v) Sūkşma or fine aggregates are ultra sensual i e those which are imperceivable to any sense organs These are bodies of matter which function as the media of thought and speech ie manaḥ vargaṇā and bhāṣā vargaṇā
vi) Sūkṣma-sükṣma or very fine are those bodies which are even finer than those used in the process of thinking These are Karmana groups of matter, bodies made up of less than infinite number of particles and paramāņus
F TWENTY-THREE TYPES OF MATTER
Beginning from paramāņu vargana and ending with the achitta mahāskhandha varganā, there are infinite number of groups of matter But it is possible to reduce the number of var ganās to twenty-three by
24. Niyamsārā 22-24
