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Bhagavai 5:8:201-207
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5.206 eesi nam bhamte! poggalānam davvādesenam khettādesenam kālādesenam
bhāvādesenam sapaesānam apaesāņa ya kayare kayarehimto appā vā? bahuyā vā? tullā vā? visesāhiya vā? nārayaputtā! savvatthovā poggalā bhāvādesenam apaesā, kālādesenam apaesā asamkhejjagunā, davvādesenam apaesā asamkhejjagunā, khettādesenam apaesā asamkhejjagunā, khettādesenam ceva sapaesā asamkhejjaguņā, davvādesenam sapaesa visesāhiyā, kālādeseņam sapaesā visesāhiyā, bhāvādesenm sapaesā visesāhiyā.
O Lord! among the material entities that are sapradeśa and apradeśa with reference to substance, space, time and mode, which are relatively less, more, equal or slightly more? O Nārayaputta! with reference to modes, the material entities that are apradeśa are the minimum in number: with reference to time, the material entities which are apradeśa are innumerable times more than them; with reference to substance, the material entities which are apradeśa are innumerable times more than them; with reference to space, the material entities which are apradeśa are infinite times more than them; with reference to space, the material entities which are sapradeśa are innumerable times more than them; with reference to substance, the material entities that are sapradeśa are somewhat more than them; with reference to time, the material entities which are sapradeśa are somewhat more than them; with reference
to modes, material entities that are sapradeśa are somewhat more than them. 5.207 tae nam se nārayaputte anagāre niyamthiputtam anagāram vamdai namamsai,
vamdittā namamsittā eyamattham sammam viņaenam bhujjo-bhujjo khāmeti, khämettā samjameņam tavasā appānam bhāvemāne viharai. The ascetic Nārayaputta bows down and offers obedience to the ascetic Niyamțhiputta; having bowed down and offered omniscience, he begs forgiveness again and again with proper humility for the exposition. Having begged forgiveness, he dwelt there sublimating his self through self-restraint and austerity.
Bhāsya 1. Sūtras 201-207
In Bhagavati 5.160-164, there was a discussion about the topic of a material atom and a material cluster being with halves, with middle and with pradeśa (indivisible part). In the present dialogue, the same subject is considered with reference to the standpoints of substance, space, time and modes
Dravyādeśa (standpoint of substance)—with reference to substance, a paramānu is without pradeśa and the clusters like dvipradesi etc. are sapradeśa.
Kșetrādeśa (the standpoint of space)—with reference to space, a material entity occupying a single ākāśa-pradeśa is apradeśa, and a material entity occupying
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