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The Jaina world of Non-living
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produced everywhere. It is sense-perceptible. It is a quality not found in any other category of realities. Thus, it proves the all pervasive space as qualified by it. All qualities are dependent on their substratums.
This is not correct. It is postulated that sound is not the quality of space. It is the form of transformation of mattergy. This will be proved logically later in aphorism 5.24. 13. Q. The Sānkhyas conceive that the primordial matter is the equilibrated form of three qualities (essence, energy and inertia ). It has a nature of begetting others. It has many altered modes like intellect etc. The space is one of the specific altered mods of the Prakrti and nothing else. A. This is not correct. There can be no transformation or alteration in Prakrti because it is permanent, inert and infinite etc. like the soul. It can neither appear nor disappear. Moreover, it is accepted that the earthen pot is the alteration of Praksti. This is non-permanent, material and nonpervasive. The space, as its alteration, should also have similar properties or the earthen pot should have properties akin to it. Either of the alternatives is not desirable. Supplementary Notes 1. The commentary deals with the following points: (a) Grammatically, the word 'accommodation' (Avagāha) is abstract noun. (b) The accommodation for all realities simultaneously is the special differentia of the space. The unoccupied space has also potency for accommodation. (c) The space and mediums of rest and motion are eternally pervasive and inter-penetrated mutually by convention as non-separables have also substratum-substrate relationship as in the case of lines on palm or powers of God. Moreover, polyviewistic approach with respect to substantive and modal standopoints proves both ways. (d) The living and the mattergies have translational motion. The space accommodates them primarily. It is not correct to say that there should not be obstruction between material objects in space as it is they which mutually obstruct and not the space.
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