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AN EPITOME OF JAINISM.
our grammar and their agencies.
substantial cause has not the least possible
agency in any form in the causation of Karakas' or the cases in things. 'Karak'-case, in our grammar, is
the general term signifying agency and the nominative, objective, ablative and the like are but specific terms implying different forms of the functional activity of the cases. The nominative, objective and the like,—they all act or operate no doubt ; but they never act of themselves and in the same way, form and matter. Each of the cases has to act differently and in its own way. By the term 'Kriya’-verb, we generally understand the changes in their most gross and visible form ; but in any case, we should not lose sight of the important fact that visible changes are but resultants of the co-operation of all the cases beginning with the chief agent or the nominative in bringing about a phenomenon.
Now though each of the various cases has its own agency peculiar to itself ; the reason why they are not all of them attributed with the principal agency will be found in the fact that the agency of the chief or the nominative is not of the same
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