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Geographical description and the lifespan of humans, animals, and birds living within it, 10. Various types of deities, their families, gatherings, locations, prosperity, lifespan, and the description of the cosmos through the light of the luminaries.
Chapter 5: 11. The nature of substances, their interrelatedness, and legitimacy; their location and the function of each, 12. The form of pudgala (matter), its types and causes of origin, 13. The supportive form of sat (truth) and nitya (eternal), 13. The capability and unworthiness of the partial bond, 15. General characteristics of substance, the differing views of time as a substance and its form according to those views, 16. Characteristics of qualities and results, along with types of results.
Comparison: Many topics in the mentioned matter are present in previous chapters and texts, but all have been condensed and omitted from being consolidated in one place as is done here. The fifth chapter mentioned above pertains to the authority of 'Pravachansara' and the substance authority of 'Panchastikaya', but its explanation differs from what is given here. 'Panchastikaya' and 'Pravachansara' have deductive methodology and elaboration, while this fifth chapter presents only concise and direct descriptions.
The structured, orderly, and coherent descriptions of the above-mentioned topics in the third and fourth chapters are not found in any Brahmin or Buddhist foundational philosophical text. Badarayana has mentioned ‘Him: Tattvajñāna' in the third and fourth chapters of his Brahmasutras, Khijra portion, page 162 from...
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