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[257 The solution to this is that from the perspective of substance, the infinite-region skandhas are the least, while atoms and so on are the most. / Further, it will be said in the Prajñāpanā Sūtra - "From the perspective of substance, the infinite-region skandhas are the least, the atomic pudgalas are infinitely numerous from the perspective of substance. From the perspective of substance, the countable-region skandhas are countably numerous, and the uncountable-region skandhas are uncountably numerous." / According to this text, when the entire pudgalāstikāya is contemplated from the perspective of region, then the infinite-region skandhas are very few and the atoms are very many, and because they are separate substances, the uncountable-region skandhas are uncountably numerous compared to the atoms. / Therefore, the pudgalāstikāya can only be uncountably numerous compared to the regions, not infinitely numerous. / In the case of the time substance, the question of the fewness or numerousness of substance and regions should not be raised, because time does not have regions. / Time is only substance, it does not have regions, because when atoms become transformed in relation to each other (mutually), then their group is called a skandha and its components are called regions. If those atoms are mutually independent, then their group cannot be called a skandha. / Time (kāladravy) is mutually independent, it is not a substance that is mutually dependent (afflicted) like a skandha. / When the present time is, then there is a lack of time before and after it. / Therefore, there is a lack of skandha-like transformation in them. / Therefore, time (kāladravy) does not have regions. / The relative fewness or numerousness of the dharmaāstikāya, etc., from the perspective of substance and region - the dharmaāstikāya, etc., are the least from the perspective of substance, because all three are one substance each. / Compared to them, the dharmaāstikāya and adharmaāstikāya are both equal and uncountably numerous from the perspective of regions, because both have uncountably many regions. / Compared to these two, the jīvāstikāya is infinitely numerous from the perspective of substance, because there are infinite jīvas. / Compared to them, the jīvāstikāya is uncountably numerous from the perspective of region, because each jīva has uncountably many regions. / Compared to the jīvāstikāya in the form of region, the pudgalāstikāya in the form of substance is infinitely numerous, because there are infinite karma-pudgalas associated with each region of a jīva. / Compared to the pudgalāstikāya in the form of substance, the pudgalāstikāya in the form of region is uncountably numerous. / The reason for this has been explained before. / Compared to the pudgalāstikāya in the form of region, time (kāladravy) is infinitely numerous from the perspective of substance and region, according to the aforementioned reasoning. / Compared to it, the ākāśāstikāya is infinitely numerous from the perspective of regions, because the ākāśāstikāya is infinite in all directions, it has no boundary; whereas time (kāladravy) only exists in the human realm. / The twenty-second gate: The fewness or numerousness of the extreme and non-extreme jīvas / 274. "Sir, of the jīvas, which are more numerous, the extreme or the non-extreme, or are they equal, or is there a difference?" / "All jīvas are non-extreme, the extreme are infinitely numerous." / "All jīvas are non-extreme, the extreme are infinitely numerous." / "From the perspective of substance, the infinite-region skandhas are the least, the atomic pudgalas are infinitely numerous from the perspective of substance, the countable-region skandhas are countably numerous from the perspective of substance, and the uncountable-region skandhas are uncountably numerous from the perspective of substance." / - Prajñāpanā: Pada, 3 Su. 330 / 2. Prajñāpanā Sūtra Malay. Vṛtti, Folio 142-143