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## Chapter 18: Description of the Six Substances and Five Astikayas
**How is the description of the six substances and five astikayas?**
The explanation is the Acharya's words in the form of a commentary, the Gatha Sutra is to be explained, this is the commentary to be explained.
**Relationship:**
The word "dravya" (substance) refers to the meaning of the word "agama" (scripture), "rupa" (form), "sabda" (sound), and "samaya" (time). The word "panchaastikaya" (five astikayas) refers to the meaning of the word "lakshana" (characteristics) and "artha" (meaning) and "samaya" (time). This is the relationship between the word and its meaning.
**Result and Purpose:**
The result and purpose are to eliminate ignorance, etc., and to attain the ultimate bliss of Nirvana. These relationships, meanings, and purposes should be known.
**Meaning:**
Thus, the first part of the text has been covered with two verses, primarily with the salutation to the desired and chosen deity.
**Hindi Meaning:**
**Verse 2:**
After saluting the word "agama" (scripture) which is in the form of the "dravya" (substance) shastra, I will describe the meaning of the "panchaastikaya" (five astikayas) in the form of "artha" (meaning) and "samaya" (time). With this promise, I salute my honorable deity, who is attained in the authority, and I indicate the relationship, meaning, and purpose. This is the intention in my mind, and I will now speak the next sutra.
**Meaning with Anvaya:**
(Eso) This I, who am Kundakunda Acharya, (samana muhuggadam) having emerged from the mouth of the great Shraman, who is free from attachment and omniscient, (chaduggadinivaranam) who removes the four gatis (paths) of hell, etc., (sanivvanam) who gives Nirvana, the destruction of all karmas, (attha) to the group of substances, including the jiva (soul), (sirasa) with the best part of my head, (panamiya) I salute, (inam samayan) this word "agama" (scripture) and "panchaastikaya" (five astikayas), (vochchhami) I will speak, (sunah) O noble beings! Listen to it.
**Meaning:**
May that word of the Jina, which is profound, sweet, very captivating, free from faults, beneficial, free from the causes of speech like the throat, lips, etc., not revealed by the stopping of the wind, clear, the speaker of the ultimate beneficial substances, all language-based, heard equally by the distant and the near, in the form of equality, and free from comparisons, protect us.
**Meaning:**
By which the spread of the darkness of ignorance is removed, and by which, upon knowing the beneficial and harmful substances that are to be known, the being attains the abandonment of the harmful, the acceptance of the beneficial, and ultimate detachment, by which right faith is revealed, and the faith in the false is removed, and by which the false conduct of night and day is kept away, may the rise of that knowledge-like ultimate sun take place in the blossoming of my mind-like lotus, or another explanation is as follows: This I, who am Kundakunda Acharya, who is eager to do the work of writing the text, having emerged from the mouth of the Shraman, and who speaks the meaning of the "panchaastikaya" (five astikayas) with characteristics, and who is the direct witness of the "dravya" (substance) "agama" (scripture) in the form of words, which removes the four gatis (paths) and gives Nirvana, I salute, and for the sake of the fame of knowledge-time...