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Quality () of a substance is its power of producing effects of changes in other things through time and space. It is everpresent in the substance. Neither being (ii) Quality. found to be without the other, they both stand in the relation of invariable concomitance or simultaniety () with one another, instead of being in relation of antecedence and consequence in time (पौर्वापर्य सम्बन्ध).
(iii) lity.
Moda.
Modality or Modification (a) again, is the successive variation (¶¶¤) in the atomic arrangement and configuration which a thing undergoes in the course of time and in space.
Predica
Now Substantiality, Quality and Modality ments and being, in short, the three characteristic indimeration.- cations of substance so called, quality and modality are also at times considered
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Nine
as substances under certain circumstances and relations when each of these three is thus characterised again with the tri-partite indications of substance. The Jain teachers, however, have come to the enumeration in general of nine categories or predicaments by pre- eminence as in the following,
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