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THEORY OF ATOM SKANDHA-DESHA . As said above, a skandha is an entity. An imaginary portion of this entitley is called "skandha-desha".21 As for example, when we imagine or consider half the part of a stick or when we say that this is one page of & book, that portion of the stick or page is called desha'. Thus, a book is a 'skandha' and a page of it imaginatively separated by us, is a 'desha' The result .IS, that what we call 'desha' is not detached from the whole; when, it is bodily detached from the skandha, it becomes a 'skandha' itself
SKANDHA-PRADESHA According to Jain Micro-Cosmology, the fundamental matter, of which every matemal object (skandha) is composed, is called 'paramanu' So long as the 'paramanu' remains attached to the 'skandha', it is called 'pradesha' In other words, we can say that, the minutest, indivisible but undetached portion of a 'skardha', is called "Skandha-Pradesh "12
PARAMANU. "The infinitesimal part of a 'skandha', which cannot be further sub-divided is a 'paramanu'' :3 So long as it remains attached to a 'skandha', it is called its 'pradesha', whilc in its free or unattached state it is known as a 'pai amanu', The nature and properties of a 'paramanu' are discussed and revealed in various ways by the Philoso--
11 Shri Jain Sidhanta Dipika, p 1-S 22 12 Shri Jain Sidhanta Dipikap-1-S 23 8 ShiJain Sidhanta Dipika p-1-S 24
