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the rice has been boiled. From this we infer that slow changes must have been going on in the rice from the moment we put it in the raw state in the vessel, till we saw it in the boiler condition. Throughout this period an existence is to be inferred. This perception of existence is called Vartanâ. Of course, this inference of existence of real time can only be made from the effects of apparent Time (Vyavahârika Kala), viz., the changes in the rice.**
लोयायपदेसे इक्केके जे ठिया हु इक्केका। रयणाणं रासीमिव ते कालाण असंखदव्वाणि ॥२२॥
Loyâyapadese ikkekke je tthiâ hu ikkekkâ, Raraṇīņam râsîmiva te kâlâņû !!!.,..v
vâņi—(22). Padapatha.--* Ikkekke, in each, 19462 Loyâyapadese, Pradeśa of Lokâkâsa. Je, which. Ikkek kâ, one by one. erg Kâlâņû, points of Time. tautai Rayanâņam, jewels. crema Rasimiva, heaps. Hn, certainly. feu Tthia, are. Te, that. wqqcafat Asamkhadavvâni, innumerable substances.
22. Those innumeralele substances which exist one by one in each Pradesa of Lokâkâsa, like heaps of jewels, are points of time.
COMMENTARY. Kala or time consists of minute points or particles which nerer mix with one another, but are always separate. The universe (Lokikasa) 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 Jaiva works, these particles have been compared to innumerable jewels. This example illustrates the fact that the * "FICATA Atagincaiata 119€
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लोकाकाशप्रदेशे एकैकस्मिन् ये स्थिताः हि एकैकाः। रत्नानां राशिः इव ते कालाणवः असंख्यद्रव्याणि ॥२२॥ Lokakasa--pradese ekaikaemin ye sthitaḥ hi ekaikah, Ratnanam rasiḥ iva te kålaşarah asankhya-dravyâņi-(22).
