Cosmology Old and New

SR No.: 006547
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: G R Jain
Publisher: Bharatiya Gyanpith
Publication Year: 1991
Total Pages: 232
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Philosophy
File Size: 12 MB

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like the other realities mentioned before, thus making the total number of fundamental realities as six.
We now proceed to investigate the nature of Time.
As described in pages 115-117, Time is divided into two categories --Absolute and Apparent, de jure and defecto. The former is made up of kalanus (grains or quanta of Time.).' See gathì below:
लोयायासपदेसे इक्किक्के जे ठिया हु इक्किक्का। रयणाणं रासी इव ते कालाण असंखदव्वाणि ।। 35
Or एकैकवृत्त्या प्रत्येकमणवस्तस्य निष्क्रियाः ।
tabTOATET-UTSTq Fragtfra Peta: 11352
लोकाकाशप्रदेशे ये ह्येकैका अणवः स्थिताः ।
frd-PH-HVCTCT (CHIHIH4 ATTI: || 353 (Tr.-Innumerable grains of Time reside, one in each spacepoint of the finite universe (Lokākāśa], like heaps of jewels.)
In other words, the Time consists of units which never mix with one another but are always separate. The whole universe (excluding Aloka- the pure space beyond finite universe) is full of these grains of Time; no part of the space within it is devoid of them. These grains are invisible, without form and inactive,
in a static condition and countless in number. They have been compared with jewels to signify that they never mix or coalesce. This characteristic differentiates Time from the other five substances; for, while the former consists of separate particles, the latter are collections of indivisible and inseparable parts. In the technical language of the Jainas.
FATEH T o PTT 1354 Time has no spatiality or extensive magnitude. Extension is of two kinds, longitudinal Extension and multi-dimensional Extension called respectively Featu (Urdhva-pracaya) and fartas
(Tir yak-pracaya). The existence of the grains of time can be
350. Grains or quanta of Time, cells of space or space-points and ultimate indivisible particles of matter.-kalamus, prades as and the paramanus are the distinctive conceptions of Jaina thought confirmed by the researches of today.
351. Dravya-samgraha, 22. 352. Tallvarıha-sara, 3.44. 353. Vardhamana-purana, 16.35. 354. Pari castikaya-sara, 102.