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Adipurana
"Time is considered to be a primary substance in practical usage. Just as a lion is not considered a lion without the primary lion, similarly, time cannot be considered time without the primary time, such as a clock or a bell. However, it is definitely present, so the existence of time as a substance must be accepted. 5-7"
Although it lacks multiple regions, it is not considered an astikaya. However, it has many qualities like heavy, light, etc., and many synonyms in the form of their modifications. Because it is a substance, every substance has a group of qualities and synonyms. The relationship of substance with qualities and synonyms is not the same as with multiple regions. Therefore, even in the absence of multiple regions, time can be considered a substance, and in this way, the existence of a separate substance called time is proven. 8"
It is proven that time is not an astikaya by calling jiva, pudgala, dharma, adharma, and akasha as astikayas. Because the meaning of an adjective can only be proven in the presence of its opposite. Just as calling the conscious soul jiva in the six substances proves the other five substances, pudgala, etc., to be non-jiva, similarly, calling jiva, etc., astikaya proves time to be anastikaya. 9"
Besides this primary time, there is the practical time, such as a clock or a bell. It is important to remember that practical time is not completely independent of primary time. It is born from it and is its synonym. It is small, it is big, etc., these things are clearly known from practical time. This is what the omniscient God has described. 10"
This practical time is activated by the definite time substance, which is the characteristic of existence, and it exists in the form of past, future, and present, and is capable of running the affairs of the world, or is imagined. 11"
This practical time is of many types, such as time, avali, ucchvasa, nadi, etc. Wise people know that this practical time is revealed by the rotation of the sun and other celestial bodies. 12"
If the time of the existence of bhava, ayu, kaya, and body, etc., is added, it becomes infinite time, and its transformation also happens in infinite ways. 13"
1. By nature. 2. Heavy, light qualities. 3. Jiva astikaya. 4. Dependence. 5. By primary time. 6. Imagined. 7. You, body, existence, etc. 8. Conceptual. 9. Infinite. 10. Armor, measure. "Armor, body measure" - Amarakosha.