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AN EPITOME OF JAINISM.
Also such is the case in respect of eternity which is real and actual only in its own matter and form as distinguished from its opposite, the matter and form of what it is not. Or in other words, the predicaments are eternal in relation to noumenon only but non-eternal in relation to paryaya-phenomenon.
And this is how to a thing, being is ascribed in relation to Its Own matter and form as well as non-being in relation to the matter and form of the Other.
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