The aim of this article is to describe the concept of language materiality in the Jain philosophy, focusing on the literature of classical period (5th- 10th c. CE). I concentrate on the following texts: Viyāhapannatti, Ālāpapaddhati, Tattvârtha-sūtra, Tattvârthasūtra-rājavārttika etc. I take into account diverse questions such as: multidimensionality of reality, attendance of matter, the theory of molecules (vargaṇās) and the problem of matter modifications (pariṇāma).
The article “Language Dynamics in the case of an Omniscient” is the study of the idea of an omniscient person on the basis of the classical Jain literature (5th–10th c. CE) in the context of language materiality, human activity and entanglement of a person into karmic bondage.
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