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THE JAINA PHILOSOPHY
nu has one primary colour one taste one smell and twc touches viz , hot or cold and dry or unctuous It is easy to see that on the basis of the quality of touch there would be four varieties of paramānus and with permutation and combinations of other qualities we will have 200 varieties Then again the stiength or intensity of each quality varies from one unit to infinite units Thus there would be infinite varieties of paramānus Similarly depending upon the number of paramānus of different varieties participating in making a composite, we will have infinite varieties of composite bodies Material universe comprised of solids liquids, and gases atoms and molecules, light and darkness, sounds and shadows, is therefore infinitely infinite
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PROPERTIES OF MATTER 1) Matter is a substance it is eternal and avastinta re non-transmutable (into another substance) 27
11) Matter is real composite and devoid of consciousness 28
m) Matter possesses sensible qualities viz colour taste smell and touch and is therefore an object of sensual cognition 29 iv) Matter is (capable of being) active 30 v) Matter is fusionable and fissionable 31
27 Notārasthuānjarupāņ cha-Tamāriha Sūtra, 53 28 Ajnahājā dhannadhammāhūsa pudgalāh-Ibid., 51 29 a) Rūpinah pudgalāha-Ibid, 54
b) Puzgala mutto rūvādiguno---Byhad Druva Sanigrha, verse 15
30 Pudgalā Ināstu Krijāvaniah--Tattavārtha Sūtra 5 6 (Bhasa)
31 Pooranād galanâchcha pudgalah-Ibid 5 1 (conimentary)
