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SERIAL OF TIME
...up to... This is the illustration of divisions according to (the standpoints of) negama and vavahära.
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189 Then what is the compatible inclusion? The compatible inclusion is (as follows):
Where do, according to (the standpoints of) negama and bavahāra, the serial substances exist compatibly? Question: Do they exist compatibly with the serial substances? (Do they exist compatibly with the non-serial substances? Do they exist compatibly with the unspeakable substances? The reply is that) they exist compatibly with the serial substances and not with the non-serial substances, nor with the unspeakable substances. Thus, the other two also exist compatibly with their respective counterparts.1
This is the compatible inclusion.
190. Then what is the consideration (through the doors of exposition)? The consideration is stated to be ninefold as (in the following verse2):
(i) ascertaining whether the word stands for something real, and
(ii) the numerical measurement;
(iii) the place (where a thing exists), and
(iv) (the range of) tectile contact;
(v) the duration, and
(vi) the interval (of time);
(vii) the spatial part (occupied),
(viii) the mode or state, and
(ix) (the comparison of the aspect of being) less or more (in number) //15//
191. (About ascertaining whether the word stands for something real, it is asked): Do, according to (the standpoints of) negama and vavahara, the serial substances exist or not exist? (The reply is that) all of the three necessarily exist,
192. (About numerical measurement, it is asked): Are according to (the standpoints of) negama and vavahara, the serial substances numerable or innumerable or infinite? (The reply is that) all of the three (are) not numerable, (are) numerable, (are not) infinite.
193. (About the place where a thing exists, it is asked) : Do, according to (the standpoints of) negama and vavahara, the
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We here follow the reading given in footnote 1 on page 95 of the MJV edition.
2. The verse is not given in full in the text.
