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dently of the other. Speaking comprehensively, it may be said that a modification or change in the object occurs, when there being the proper Kala for it and a Niyati, if any,-the central factor i. e. the Svabhava of the object, already determined in a peculiar manner by Karma and equipped with its usual Udyama, adjusts itself accordingly. From this, it will be manifest that a change or modification in an object cannot be an absolute event; it occurs within a limited scope and is regulated and conditioned by the being and the becoming of the object properly adjusted to the circumstances surrounding it. The Jaina philosophers mean this adjustment by the " of the object to the circumstances outside it by pointing out that in the case of a predication about an object, the assertion is to be held to be true only in respect of (1) the peculiar being of the object itself (Sva-dravya ), (2) the peculiar location of the object i. e. the place, as adjusted by the object to itself (Sva-Kģetra), (3) the peculiar time i. e. time as adjusted by the object to its being and becoming (Sva-Kāla ) and (4) the peculiar becoming of the object at the time (Sva-Bhāva ).
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Thus in explaining the stock example of existence' being attributed to the "Pitcher ",
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