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The Jaina world of Non-living
external movement and rest of the living and mattergies. As their motion and rest is there in whole of the occupied space, their beneficiary causes must also be taken as pervasive there. There will be no such activities without their existence. Hence, the aphorism 5.17 is intended to indicate their prevasive character. Gati-sthiti-upagrahau Dharma-adharmayoh-upkārah 5.17
The motion and rest are the functions of the realities of medium of motion and rest respectively. 5.17. (Alternatively, the motion is the function of the reality of medium of motion. The rest is the function of the reality of medium of rest). 1. The motion (gati) is defined as that mode of an entity which moves it from one point to another point in space due to external and internal causes. 2. The rest is just the opposite of motion. It is defined as the mode of the entity stopping its movement caused by non-translational character of its position. 3. The term 'beneficiation (upagraha)' is defined as the cause leading to generate different capacities or powers in the realities. 4-8. Q. The first term in the aphorism 5.17 can have many meanings depending upon what case and compound is taken. This does not lead us to have the correct meaning for the term. There may be a Bahubrihi compound here, there may be possessive case here, there may be homolocational meaning too. A. The aphorist intends here to mean homolocational meaning. Had there been the sense of Bahubrihi compound, the aphorism could have a double number in its terms. Had there been the sense of sixth possessive case, there would have been a singular number in the first term of the aphorism. Hence, there is the sense of homolocalisation in this aphorism 5.17 by remainder which leads to support the double number in the first term. The homolocalisation is based on objective case. 9. The second term refers to the nominative case as there is the sixth case. The subjectivity is with respect to the verb 'beneficiation' which is an abstract case.
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