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108 JAIN PIILO. IPIIY & MODERN SCICNCC far only hot atoms and hydrogen-bombs. An antidote for the nuclear weapons is still to be worked out. We do not mean to say that "Tegouleshya' and nuclear bombs are one and the same thing but the marked summularity between the two is certainly cnough at least to give rise to great curiosities
CONCLUSION Just as Jain Philosophy has propounded un-, parallcled precepts about non-violence, non-absolutism, salvation and other philosophical and metaphysical subjects, its contrbulions in the field of physics and other material sciences are also unique. When it has been amply clcar from various considerations that the modern science itself in its development at cach step is only following the various principles already enunciated by it (Jainology) there remains nothing to talk about other systems of philosophy. Many thinkers with a scientific bias brush aside this topic by merely stating that there cannot be any comparison between ancient philosophical ideas and Uhc studies in modern science on the subject of micro-cosmology. Philosophers could only havo a minimum knowledge of the subject This knowlcdge, having been developed and transformed in the ficld of Science, has changed basically. Hence, the philosophers' knowledge has little importance in the modern times. But the fact is that such thinkers have never cared to spend any time in studying the ancient cos
