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8. its divisions, 9. its indivisible parts, and 10. timel. (5, 6)
Dharma and Adharma are co-extensive with the World (Lôka); space fills the World and the Nonworld (Alôka); time exists in what is called the place of time (7)
Dharma, Adharma, and Space are ever without beginning and end. (8)
And time also, if regarded as a continuous flow 3, is called so (i. e. without beginning and end); but with regard to an individual thing it has a beginning and an end. (9)
(2) The four kinds of things possessing form are 1. compound things, 2. their divisions, 3. their indivisible parts, and 4. atoms 4. (10)
Compound things and atoms occur as individual things and apart (or different from others) 5, in the whole world and in parts of the world; this is their distribution with regard to place. (11)
Subtile things occur all over the world, gross things only in a part of it.
1 It is here called addha-samaya, which may be translated realtime. It has no divisions or parts as the other things, because of time only the present moment is existent. And a moment cannot be divided.
3 Time is only present in the two and a half continents inhabited by men, and the oceans belonging to them; beyond this sphere there is no time or, as the Dipikâ correctly remarks, no divisions of time.
S Samtatim pappa=samtatim prâpya.
4 According to the Dîpikâ, we should have but two divisions, viz.: 1. compound things (skandha, aggregates of atoms), and 2. not aggregated atoms; for Nos. 2 and 3 of our text are but subdivisions of No. 1.
Êgattêna puhuttêna rêkatvê na prithaktvêna.
