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Acquisition. 6. Due to the nature of non-possessing, the existence of atoms is inferred from their effects, because atoms are eternal and non-perceptible. What is great is that which is perceptible, because it contains many substances and is of form. The perceivable nature of substances arises from the connection of characteristics such as number and variety with form. What is real and devoid of cause is termed eternal. Thus, here the questions of reality-eternality, atom-definition, and perceptible-non-perceptible are raised, and indeed, the discussion of reality with regard to atoms is taken up in this context. In other words, the explanation regarding reality-eternality in sutras 5:29-31 relates to the production of atoms and their perceptibility, that is, it's in reference to matter (pudgala), not regarding the nature of reality in connection to substances. If such a reality had been sought by the author of the sutras, the same question would have arisen regarding substances, as it is in Pancastikaya, but that was not the intent here. Therefore, the definition of good substance in this context does not seem appropriate and appears to have been added later. This establishes that sutra 5: (29) is not the original text of Tattvarthasutra.
As far as the question of the elimination of sessions in both recensions, which has been discussed above in four categories, the Digambara text appears to be more revised than the Svetambara text. This revision is achieved by removing the erroneous results of sutras 5:42-44 of the first category, enhancing the significant meanings in the commentary of sutra 7:3 of the second category, and fulfilling the sutras of the third and fourth categories, 3: (12-32) and 5: (29), which is certainly significant. In the handwritten copies of the Western Indian tradition, there is also often a mixture of the Digambara sutras 8: (26) and 10: (7-8) of the second category. While any text's authenticity and inauthenticity can only be substantiated definitively by sutra 5: (29) of the fourth category, the author's style, which is noted in connection with the sessions 7:3 (3) and 7: (4-8) of the second category, serves as a secondary evidence.