Tattvartha Sutra

SR No.: 006796
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Sukhlal Sanghavi, K K Dixit
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 2000
Total Pages: 596
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Tattvartha Sutra, & Tattvarth
File Size: 10 MB

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TATTVĀRTHA SŪTRA
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substance-e.g. consciousness, colour etc. It is only on account of their unique qualities and modes produced by them that substances differ from one another.
Similar considerations should be applied to the qualities and modes belonging to the substances dharmāstikāya, adharmāstikāya and ākāśāstikāya. In this connection the following thing should be understood. Since the pudgala-substance is mūrta or tangible the qualities as well as modes belonging to it are called gurulaghu or heavy and light but since the remaining substances are amūrta or non-tangible the qualities as well modes belonging to them are called agurulaghu or neither heavy nor light. 37.
Consideration Relating to kāla or Time :
Certain authorities maintain that kāla too is a substance. 38.
It possesses ananta samayas (as modes). 39.
So many modes like perduration etc. have been earlier attributed to kāla? but unlike in the case of dharmāstikāya etc. substance-hood has not been predicated of it. So the question arises : Since substance-hood has not been attributed to kāla is it the case that it is not a substance ? Or since the modes like perduration etc. have been attributed to kāla, is it the case that it is a substance ? The answer is forth-coming here.
1. In the Digambara tradition the aphorism reads "kālas ca'. Accordingly, those following it treat kāla as an independent substance. Then they maintain not that the present aphorism puts forth the view of a limited section of authors but that the aphorist himself intends to view kāla as an independent substance. Those who treat kāla as an independent substance and those who do not, how they lend support to their respective views, how they view kāla, what further difference of opinion has arisen in this connection--for a detailed information on all these and allied matters see Hindi Chauthā Karmagrantha, appendix pertaining to the term kāla p. 157.
2. See chapter 5, aphorism 22.