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## 460 Go. Sa. Jiyakanda
## Gatha 269-403
**Shankara:** Here, the doubter says that when an immeasurable number of parts of an angul (finger) pass by, time increases by one moment. This does not happen because, by increasing in this way, the excellent region of the deshavadhi (spatial dimension) cannot be produced, and an immeasurable number of times the excellent time will be produced. In this way, the excellent region of the deshavadhi is the lok (world). The excellent time is one moment less than a palya (a unit of time). In this situation, if an immeasurable number of parts of an angul are obtained in one moment, how many parts of a palya will be obtained in a time less than an immeasurable number of parts of a palya? In this way, when the desired quantity is multiplied by the result quantity and divided by the proof quantity, only an immeasurable number of ghanangul (cubic angul) are produced, not the excellent region of the deshavadhi, the lok. If time increases by one moment when an immeasurable number of parts of an angul pass by, how much time will increase in a lok that is less than a part of a ghangal (a unit of space)? In this way, if the desired quantity multiplied by the result quantity is divided by the proof quantity, an immeasurable part of the lok is obtained, not the excellent time of the deshavadhi, which is one moment less than a palya. Therefore, when a time less than an immeasurable number of parts of a palya is divided by a lok that is devoid of the inferior avadhikshetra (spatial dimension), an immeasurable part of the lok is obtained. Time should increase by one moment when this many parts pass by, because otherwise, the aforementioned faults will arise.
**Solution:** This does not happen because, if it is accepted as such, the non-production of the regions mentioned in the Rasatra of the Vargana will arise. It is like this: the region that knows an immeasurable number of parts of a palya in relation to time knows an immeasurable number of parts of an angul. This is what is said in the sutra (aphorism). The region that knows a time slightly less than a palya knows a ghanangul. The region that knows a palya in relation to time knows the angul separation. The region that knows half a month in relation to time knows the Bharat region. The region that knows a month plus a little in relation to time knows the Jambudvipa. The region that knows a year in relation to time knows the manushyalok (human world). In this way, the remaining regions will not be produced because, if it is accepted that time increases by one moment when the region increases by an immeasurable part of the lok, it will be against the sutra, because it will be a deceptive argument.
**Doubt:** If this does not happen, then it does not happen. But then, how is the production of the excellent region and time possible?
**Solution:** Their production happens due to the absence of the rule of increase. First, time increases by one moment when an immeasurable number of parts of an angul pass by. It is like this: when the inferior time is subtracted from an immeasurable number of parts of a palya, the remaining time increases by an immeasurable number of parts of a palya. By making it rare and subtracting the inferior avadhikshetra, the increase in the region by an immeasurable number of parts of an angul, which is less than the inferior avadhikshetra, is given in equal parts. In this way, an immeasurable number of parts of an angul are obtained in each moment. Here, if there is a settled increase in the region, then when the regions increase one by one, the underlying time of that same region should also increase one by one. Or, if there is an unsettled increase, then one should take an immeasurable number of options of increase from the first option to an immeasurable number of parts of an angul, because the guru (teacher) has taught that time increases by one moment when an immeasurable number of parts of an angul pass by. Again, an immeasurable number of parts of an angul or an immeasurable number of parts of that same angul...