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CHAPTER 5
On the Jaina Concept of Casuality in Haribhadrasūri's Şad-darśana-samuccaya
and its Commentaries
L. C. JAIN
The Șad-darśana-samuccaya (SDS) of Haribhadrasūri (eighth century AD) is said to be a leading Indian work providing a compendium of the six systems of Indian philosophy, and Gunaratnasūri has composed an exhaustive commentary on it.
According to some preceptors, the time-fluent (kāla-dravya), among the six fluents, is said to be casual. Some other preceptors regard the lapsing of an instant as eventual in the remaining five fluents. Here we propose to take up section 172, in which details regarding Time have been given.?
*According to Gunaratna's commentary, time-fluent exists in the human universe. It is extremely fine, and the indivisible instant (samaya) is required as a pure time-fluent (kāla-dravya). As it is single-pointed (eka-pradeśī), it cannot be called existentcorporeal (astikāya), because an aggregate of points (pradeśas) is called existent-corporeal (astikāya). But according to some preceptors, it is a fluent (dravya), hence it flows through its events (paryāyas) and controls Gunas. So far as its functions are concerned, they are enumerated as pariņāma, kriyā, paratva and aparatva.
