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4 (857a) The substances (davvāim) which the soul (jiva) takes up (genhai) for the purpose of building the bodies either 'stand by' (are thiya, see comm.) or do not 'stand by' (athiya). Moreover, the soul takes them up in respect of substance, space, time and condition (davvao bhāvao); ref. to Pannav. 28, 1:498b. Specification of the different modalities of this process which depend on the purpose for which the substances are taken up.
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thiya sthita: 'being in the place occupied by the units of the soul' (jīva-pradeśâvagāḍha-kṣetrasyabhyantara-vartin), Abhay.
3. SAMTHĀŅA.
1 (858a) a. There are six geometrical formations (sam - thāna), viz the [simple] ring-shaped (parimandala), discshaped (vaṭṭa), triangular (tamsa), square (cauramsa) and oblong (ayaya, lit. 'stretched') formations and the complex (anitthamtha) formation. All these are infinite (aṇanta) both in substance (scil. in number: davv'aṭṭhayae) and infinite[ly different] as to [the number of] units of space [they occupy] (paes'aṭṭhayae). b. The relative frequency of the six geometrical formations considered from the same points of view (davva and paesa) separately and jointly (davv'attha-paes' aṭṭhayae).
Complex formations (anitthamtha lit. 'behaving otherwise': parimandal'adivyatirikta, Abhay.) are composed of any number of simple geometrical formations of any kind (parimaṇḍal'ādīnām dvy'ādi-samyoga-nişpannatvena, Abhay.).
2 (859a) a. The five [simple] geometrical formations (samṭhāṇa but the complex formation is missing) are infinite in number (aṇanta) in each separate region of both the nether and the upper world. b. (?) If, by superposing the ring-shaped formations found in this world according to the number of their space-units, one could build a construction that has the shape of a barley-corn (java-majjha), there still would remain an infinite number of ring-shaped and other formations beyond this construction. The same is true if one should use disc-shaped, triangular, square or oblong formations to build such a construction. The same is also true in each separate region of both the nether and the upper world.
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