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## Translation:
**Description of the Six Substances and Five Astikayas**
At the time of describing the transactional time, is there no substance in the form of the definitive time, the time atom? To this, the Acharya says that time is a synonym known as the most subtle form of time, it is not a substance. It is a synonym because time arises and perishes. It is said, "Time arises and perishes." A synonym cannot exist without a substance. A substance is definitely imperishable, therefore, the time atom in the form of the substance is the causal basis of the time synonym, not the pudgala, etc. Because it is a rule that the effect is like the causal basis, just as a lump of clay will be, so will the pot made from it be similar to its causal basis. And what else? The word "time" itself, being the denoter of the ultimate time, establishes the nature of its own denotation, the ultimate time. Just as the word "lion" proves the lion substance, the word "omniscient" proves the omniscient substance, and the word "Indra" proves the Indra substance. Still, while being hesitant, the nature of definitive and transactional time is explained.
The subtle transactional time, in the form of time, etc., and the gross transactional time, in the form of hours, etc., whatever their causal basis may be, and which is devoid of the conceptualization of transactional time due to the distinction of time, hours, etc., and which is the distinct substance in the form of countless time atoms, the measure of countless regions of the infinite space of the endless lokas, existing in all three times, is the definitive time. And that which, though born from the causal basis of the definitive time, manifests itself in the pudgala atom, water vessel, etc., is the transactional time, which comes into the conceptualization of specific transactions in the form of time, hours, days, etc. The implication of this explanation is that one should have complete faith in the pure jiva astikaya, which has been rare in the infinite past, in its single nature of pure bliss, and one should know it to be different from attachment, etc., and attain the knowledge of distinction, and in it alone, one should remain steadfast, abandoning the net of all thoughts and choices, which are the forms of attachment, etc.
In this way, two chapters are completed, mainly due to the explanation of transactional time.
In the first great chapter, which describes the five astikayas and the six substances, with eight internal chapters, the third internal chapter is completed with five chapters, through three locations, which speak of the definitive and transactional time. In this way, the preface is completed with thirty-six chapters, through three internal chapters, mainly due to the explanations of the time word-preface, the substance preface, and the definitive and transactional time.