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THE JAINA PHILOSOPHY
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cannot however, cross the boundary of loka and aloka (since there is no dharmasukāra in aloka) Since it exists everywhere in the whole loka, it can
be said to pervade the loka 8 By itself it is not attracted by iccia and is therefore
not assimilated and does not interact with jeeva B DETAILED DISCUSSION OF THE PROPERTIES OF PARAMANU 1 Nomenclature Its full name is paramāņu pudgala
or dravja paramāņu, but is generaly called para- mānu in the following, paramānu means param
ānu pudgala 2 Substantially paramānu is a substance because it
possesses both quality and modes 3 Spatially pai amănu pervades the whole of the loka
but is incapable of crossing over to aloka By itself it occupies a single space-point and can never extend to more than one, a body composed of infinite paramāņus, compactly packed may also
occupy a single point in space 4 Temporally paramiānu existed in the infinite past
It exists in the present and it shall exist in the
infinite future Temporally it is eternal 5. Qualitatively paramāņu possesses colour, taste.
smell and touch These four are innate qualities of paramānu a Colour-paramānu possesses one of the five
primary colours (black. blue, red, yellow and white) More than one colour or a mixture of two or more primary colours does not subsist in a free paramānu The intensity of the colour possessed by a paramānu could be one unit, two units and so on upto (asankhyāta ) units and even infinite units Colour (and its intensity)
