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jiva is No-nvastıkaya-pradesh; No-skandha and that Pradesh of it, which is in the form of No-skandha is No-skandhastıkayapradesh."
To Samprati-samabhirudha naya, stating thus, Evambhuta naya says "Whatever you say (about Dharmastikaya etc.) is not correct. According to me they all are whole (without any sections or space-points), complete (in themselves), undivided (without components) and comprehended unitarily (by just one word). Thus, to me a section is unreal and a space-point is also unreal."
This concludes the description of Pradesh dristant (example of space-point.
Elaboration-An imaginary section of an entity or substance is called Desh and its extremely minute part is called Pradesh or space-point. A section without further sections, indivisible part, a fraction without further fractions, all these terms mean Pradesh
Dharmastikaya (motion entity), Adharmastikaya (rest entity), Akashastikaya (space entity) and a single Jivastikaya (life entity), these four are indivisible entities. Desh is an imaginary section and Pradesh is a minute section equal to a single paramanu (ultimate particle). In this example of space-point the seven opinions conforming to the seven nayas are as follows
(1) Naigam naya
Naigam naya (co-ordinated viewpoint) accepts both common and special Therefore it accepts Pradeshas of all the six entities including Dharmastikaya.
(2) Samgraha naya
According to Samgraha naya (generalized viewpoint) Desh (section) is not an independent entity, therefore it does not accept the alternative 'the Pradesh of Desh'. The sections of these entities are not independent of the entities, therefore, a Pradesh of a section of an entity is a Pradesh of that entity only. Thus according to the Samgraha naya (generalized viewpoint) only five out of the said six entities have Pradeshas.
(3) Vyavahar naya
Vyavahar naya (particularized viewpoint) maintains that the aforesaid statement is true only if a single Pradesh is related to all the
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