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THE MEDIA OF MOTION AND REST AND SPACE 133 molecules. These different forms of matter are described later. If it be admitted that matter is formless and one as premordial nature, (as in Sarkhyā philosophy), it would contradict the manifold effects that are seen.
Is each of the other substances such as the medium of motion divisible like matter? No.
आ आकाशादेकद्रव्याणि A ākāśādekadratyāņi
(6) 6. The substances (mentioned in the first sutra) up to space are indivisible wholes (i. e. each is one single continuum).
The particle ä in the sutra denotes the limit. The substances must be taken in the order in which these are mentioned in the sutra (1). Hence the medium of motion, the medium of rest and space are taken. The word 'eka' denotes number, and it qualifies the word dravya. One and substance is one substance. If so the plural dravyāņi (substances) is unnecessary. The reference to the medium of motion and the other substances implies the plural. It is argued that the principle of brevity is violated by the mention of dravya (substance) in the sutra. It should be fekai kain' (each is one) instead of
ekadravyāni' (each is one substance). Still dravya (substance) is included in the sutra, in order to specify that oneness (a single continuous extension) is with regard to substance. With regard to place, time and so on, each substance is innumerable, infinite and so on. It implies that the medium of motion or the medium of rest or space is not many in the manner of souls and forms of matter.
Is there any other peculiarity with regard to these three substances ?
निष्क्रियाणि च
Vişkrivāri ca 7. These three (the medium of motion, the medium of rest and space) are also without activity (movement).
The mode of a substance arising from internal and external causes, which is the cause of its motion, is called activity. Niskriyāni means without activity or movement. The medium
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