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रूपिण: पुद्गगलाः ||५||
Meaning
पुद्गगलद्रव्य रूपी अर्थात् मूर्तिक है।

भावार्थ

यद्यपि सूत्र में पुद्गगला को केवल रूपी बतलाया है, परन्तु साथ रहने से रस, गन्ध तथा स्पर्श का भी ग्रहण हो जाता है। Reference:Tatvartha-Sutra-Pradeep-Bhaiya-Piyush-तत्वार्थसूत्र बा.ब्र.प्रदीप पियूष–Link to book

English Meaning:

Things which have form – rūpi – constitute the matter (pudgala). ‘Rūpa’ means form. What is form? The effect of the aggregation of colour, shape, etc., is form. Things which have form are called ‘rūpi’. Or, ‘rupa’ is a word denoting a specific quality. And things which possess this quality are material – ‘rūpi’. It does not however mean that taste, smell, etc., are excluded as colour is inseparably connected with these.The plural pudgalah’ is used in order to indicate different forms of the matter, such as the atoms and the molecules. These different forms of the matter are described later. If it be contended that the matter is formless and of elemental nature (as in the Samkhya philosophy), it would contradict the manifold effects that are seen in the world. Reference:Tatvartha-Sutra-तत्वार्थ-सूत्र-Vijay-K-Jain

Questions and Answers: शङ्का -समाधान

Answer रूप, रस, गन्ध, स्पर्श और गोल, त्रिकोण, चौकोर, लम्बा, चौड़ा आदि आकृतियों को रूपादि कहते हैं और उन रूप रसादि और गोल, चौकोरादि संस्थान (आकृति) रूप जिसका परिणमन है उसे मूर्त्ति कहते हैं।
Reference:Tatwarth-Manjusha-Khand-2-तत्त्वार्थ-मंजूषा-खंड-2-Aryika-Shri-Vigyanmati-Mataji.pdf

Answer पुद्गल को रूपी कहने से रसादि का भी ग्रहण हो जाता है क्योंकि रस, गन्ध और स्पर्श का रूप के साथ अविनाभाव सम्बन्ध है। अतः रूप के कहने रसादि का ग्रहण हो ही जाता है ।
Reference:Tatwarth-Manjusha-Khand-2-तत्त्वार्थ-मंजूषा-खंड-2-Aryika-Shri-Vigyanmati-Mataji.pdf

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