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It seams that the earliest philosophers were trying to understand which of the four elements is the arche, but all of them were aware of the 4 elements concept. So the question is where this concept come from? Who was the first to talk about? Maybe babilonians, or Egyptians or hindus?
Did anyone research that ? I did but couldn't find the origins 196.129.68.203 (talk) 07:51, 2 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I have restored the small subsection "Water, air, or fire?". Someone else originally added the content; I only did some rephrasing, reordering, and added the subheading. I'm sure this could have been done much better by a more capable editor. I haven't checked the sources and don't know to what extent the information is correct and relevant. It seems somewhat interesting and relevant to me. The subsection has recently been removed and there may or may not be good reasons for that. It would be nice with an explanation for its deletion though. The Cosmic Ocean (Please feel free to modify or undo any of my edits as deemed appropriate.)15:36, 13 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Content was recently removed by William M. Connolley by saying it is more about souls than elements. While I suppose it focuses more on souls believed to inhabit elements than the elements themselves, I still felt like it would be worth keeping because it shows the religious significance that the concept of the elements have in Jainism.
One of the sources added that can be read here even mentions a connection to the elements earth, air, fire and water, by stating "Plants, various one-celled animals, and ‘elemental’ beings (beings made of one of the four elements—earth, air, fire, or water) have only one sense."
However, for the other source that was added, I made a link to the journal itself instead of linking the pages of the journal because more than one page contains information that was added to the article, so I was not able to link every different page. But if you want to see the specific part where elements are mentioned, see this link of page 353 which states "Ekendriya jivas inhabit the elements above enumerated" (in this case it is referring to what the Ekendriya are said to inhabit in pages 351 and 352 which are the elements earth, water, fire and air). Opskind (talk) 15:51, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]