Concept of Matter in Jaina Philosophy

SR No.: 001663
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: J C Sikdar
Publisher: P V Research Institute Varanasi
Publication Year: 1987
Total Pages: 412
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Philosophy, & Physics
File Size: 23 MB

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Indriyas, Karma and Leśyā.
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external shape of skin. But in the case of other sense-organs it is not so. Except skin the internal shapes of all other sense-organs are not identical with their external shapes. The internal shapes of kindred sense-organs of all classes of animals have been accepted as of one and the same type. As for instance, the internal shape of the ear is like the shape of a kadamba-flower, that of the eye is like the lentil, that of the nose is like the atimuktaka flower, that of the tongue is like khurupā (dagger or weeding agricultural implement). The internal shape of the skin is of differents kinds. 2
The external shapes of all the sense-organs are different in all cases o animals, as for example, ears, eyes, noses and tongues of man, elephant, horse, cow, cat, rat, etc.3
All these five sense-organs are individually an innumerableth part of an angula (finger) by thickness (bāhalla), while the ear is an innumerableth part by width (pohatta); thus upto that of the eye and nose; the tongue is one angula (finger) by width (pohatta); and the skin is equal to the extent of the body. These five sense organs are endowed with infinite units. (anantapradeśikas) and immersed in countless space-points asıṁ inyeyapradeśāvagā lhi). The least of all these is the eye. 4
The capacity of apprehending objects by internal nirvṛtti (formation) is called upakaranendriya.5
Bhāvendriya (psychic sense-organ) is of two kinds, viz. labdhirūpa (mental faculty-like) and upayogarūpa (consciou
1. TS., Pt. I, pp. 165. 2. Bhs., 2.4. 499; Prajñā, 15, 191; Pañcadasa, Indriyapada,
Prathama Uddeśaka; Fourth Karmagrantha, pp. 36-37; TS., ch. II. 17-18 and vịtti;Viśesāva., gāthā, 2993-3003 and
Lokaprakāśa, Sarga, 3, Sl. 464.ffi 3. TS., Pt. I, p. 165. 4. Pannā., 5, Indriyapada appabahụdāram, 191, p. 166. 5. TS., Pt. I, p. 164.