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and Vidyānanda also do not clarify on this issue. It would seem proper that the first class of peripheral variety should be taken here. However, this is subject to elaboration by the canonists and scholarly saints. 7. The value of even the first innumerable variety in its different forms is not very clear-cut. The minimal value depends on the maximal numerable number. With respect to time, the maximal numerable time varies between 10"-10 years. This +1 makes the innumerable time. However, the 'innumerable' in terms of number has a different story detailed earlier. Akalanka has also given a complex method to find it out in his commentary on aphorism 3.38. Thus, until the value of maximal or highest numerable number is fixed, the value of any class of innumerable number will be anybody's guess. This is why, the existence of the class of innumerable number and its value has been ascribed to the instruction of the omniscients. Thus, this quantity becomes a subject of non-logical arena not amenable to common man's knowledge. 8. The canons have given many symbols for 'innumerable' in different texts. 9. Similar is the case with existence and extension of a unit spacepoint. It has also to be accepted on the basis of omniscient instruction. The question of the attribute of 'a-heavy-a-light' has also been dealt with similarly in the aphorism 5.7.
The concept of a unit spacepoint is only an ideal and mental construct for the common man to represent the dimension of an indivisible atom. It is also termed as indivisible corresponding section. However, it must be noted that the term 'atom' and 'spacepoint' are different from each other.
The next aphorism 5.9 answers to the question about the numericallity of spacepoints of space.
Ākāšasya Anantāh 5.9 The reality of space has infinite space points. 5.9. 1. The term 'Ananta' means infinite or endless. The infiniteness here refers to 'spacepoints'. They are dragged here from the previous aphorism. Thus, it means that the spacepoints in space are infinite.
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