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IUL JAUNUL DUVAD VLTA JALWAS.
Pudgala has Pradeśas which are numerable, innumerable and infinite. To be more explicit, Pudgala or matter consists of ultimate indivisible particles which we might call atoms, remembering, however, that these atoms are more fine than the atoms as understood in the modern science. Now, two or more atoms of matter may combine and produce what is technically known as a Skandha.† A Skandha may contain two, four, six, a hundred, a million or more atoms. The Pradeśas or spaces obstructed by atoms in the state of Skandha can, therefore be counted, and hence we might say in this respect that matter (Pudgala) has numerable Pradeśas. From another point of view, if we do away with the combination which produce Skandhas and suppose the atoms to exist separately, contemplating a division, Pudgala should be understood to have innumerable atoms; for Pudgala, as mentioned before, exists throughvut Lokâkâğa or the universe. Again, Pudgala may be said to have infinite Pradesas also from another point of view, viz., the atoms of matter in a subtle state may be considered to be infinite.
If a doubt be started that how can infinite atoms exist in finite Lokâkâsa, we reply that atoms in a subtle state, though infinite, can exist in one Pradeśa of A kása, though in the gross state this is not possible. I Thus matter in subtle state may be said to possess infinite Pradesas.
It has already been mentioned in the Commentary on Verse 24 that Kâla has only one Pradeśa, and this is the reason why we do not call it Kaya, for a Kâya is that which has more than one Pradesa.
एयपदेसो वि अणू णाणाखंधप्पदेसदो होदि बहुदेसो उवयारा तेण य काओ भणंति सव्वण्हु ॥२६॥*
Eyapadeso vi aņû ņânâkhandhappadesado hodi. + sate: FFMETI" Acarat 32qaRI" Segy: 1" " Tarzi 21 :1"
[ TeruffTTHETH 14194-261] + "अधिकरणविरोधादानन्त्याभाव इति चेन्न सूक्ष्मपरिणामावगाहनसामर्थ्यात् ।
[atricia , 141813] * Sanskrit rendering:
एकप्रदेशः अपि अणुः नानास्कन्धप्रदेशतः भवति । बहुदेशः उपचारात् तेन च कायः भणन्ति सर्वज्ञाः ॥ २६॥
E kapradesaḥ api anu nanáskandba pradeatalı bhavati. Vahudeśaḥ upachârât tena cha kâyah bhaộanti sarvajah-(26).
