Dravya Sangraha

Author(s): Nemichandramuni
Publisher: Chandraprabha Digambar Jain Mandir Trust

Page 50

The Sacred Book
of the Jains 43
Ikkekke, in each.
कालाण
Loyayapadese, PraJe, which. Ikkekka, one by one. Rayananam, jewels. f Rasimiva, Tthia, are. Te, that. Asam
Padapathadesa of Lokakasa, Kalanu, point of Time.
heaps. Hu, certaicly. khadavvani, innumerable substances.
22. Those innumerable substances which exist one by one in each Pradesa of Lokakasa, like heaps of jewels, are points of time.
COMMENTARY
Kala or time consists of minute, points or particles which never mix with one another, but are always separate. The universe (Lokakasa) is full of these particles of time, no space within it being void of the same. It need not be mentioned that these particles of time are invisible, innumerable, inactive and without form.
In all the Jain works, these particles have been compared to innumerable jewels. This example illustrates the fact that the particles of time never mix up with one another. In Tattvarthasara, we have:
"एकवृत्त्या प्रत्येकमरणवस्तस्य निष्क्रियाः ।
लोकाकाश-प्रदेशेषु रत्नराशिरिव स्थिताः || ” [ ३०४४]
i. e. "The particles of that (Time) exist each in its own capacity, like heaps of jewels in the Pradesas of the Lokakasa (universe), and are without activity."
In Vardhamana Purana we have:
"लोकाकाशप्रदेशे थे ह्येकैका अरणवः स्थिताः । भिन्नभिन्न प्रदेशस्था रत्नानामिव राशयः ॥ "
[Canto XVI. Verse 35] i. e. "The particles exist separately in different Pradesas of Lokakasa, like heaps of jewels in different places."
This characteristic of Time differentiates it from the other five kinds of substances, for, while the former consists of separable particles, the later are collections of indivisible and inseparable parts. एवं छवभेयमिदं जीवाजीवप्पभेददो दव्यं ।
उत्तं कालवित्तं गायव्या पंच अस्थिकाया हु ।। २३ ।
Evam chhavbheyamidam jivajivappabhedado davvam. Uttam kalavijuttam nayavva pancha atthikaya du.-(23) Padapatha-ga Evam, in this manner. Jivajivappabhedado, according to the subdivisions of Jiva and Ajiva. इद Idam,