Colour Plates of Rasa dravya

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A History of Indian Philosophy Volume 2 [by Surendranath Dasgupta]

From Sushruta s statements it appears that there was a great difference of opinion regarding the relative prominence of dravya and its properties. There were some who held that dravya was the most important, since dravya remained permanent, whereas rasa, etc. are always changed; so dravya is relatively permanent. Again, dravya is grasped by the five senses, and not its gunas. The dravya is also the support of the rasas, etc....

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A History of Indian Philosophy Volume 1 [by Surendranath Dasgupta]

The six Padarthas: Dravya, Guna, Karma, Samanya, Vishesha, Samavaya. Of the six classes of entities or categories (padartha) we have already given some account of dravya. Let us now turn to the others. 1) Of the qualities (guna) the first one called rupa (colour) is that which can be apprehended by the eye alone and not by any other sense. The colours are white, blue, yellow, red, green, brown and variegated (citra). Colours are found only in kshiti, ap and tejas....

Read full contents: Part 9 - The six Padarthas: Dravya, Guna, Karma, Samanya, Vishesha, Samavaya

The concept of Sharira as Prameya [by Elizabeth T. Jones]

Similarly the organ of jala namely tongue receives the quality of rasa (taste) alone but not the other two gunas namely rupa and sparsha. So, what Naiyayikas say cannot be accepted. In reply to this, Naiyayikas say that each dravya has got a special guna of its own. Accordingly prithvi has a special guna called gandha. The other dravyas are also having their own special gunas....

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