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SECTION III
GENERAL PROPERTIES OF PUDGALA
1. Pudgala is
(a) an astika ya1
(b) a real,2
(c) a substance,3
(d) eternal/indestructible,4
(e) a vasthita (non-transmutable).
2. Pudgala is physical order of existence, not psychical.6
3. (a) Pudgala possesses qualities of colour, taste, smell and touch.7
(b) Pudgala is sensible/perceivable.8
4. (a) Pudgala is kriyāvān (i.e. incessantly active).9
(b) Pudgala is pariṇāmī (i.e. subject to mutation),10
5. Pudgala is fusionable and fissionable.11
6. (a) Pudgala is numerically infinite.12
(b) Spatially it fills the entire universe.13
Microcosmology: Atom
7. Pudgala interacts with and influences psychic order of existence, i.e., jīva or consciousness.14
1. Bhagavati Sūtra, 13/4/55 (J.V.B. Edition)
2. Ibid., ibid.
3. Utt. 28/8
4. Tat. Sut. 5/4
5. Ibid., ibid.
6. Ibid., 5/1
7. Bhagavati Sūtra, 2/10/129
8. (a) Tat. Süt., 5/4;
(b) Brh. Dra. Sam., verse 15
9. Tat sut. Bhāṣya, 5/6
10. Brh. Dra. Sam. 2/1 p. 67
11. Tat. Sūt. Commentary, 5/1
12. Bhag. Sut. 2/10/129; Utt. 28/8 13. Ibid., ibid
14. (a) Tat. Sūt. 8/2
(b) Ibid., 5/19
