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'dravya', besides being capable of receiving all other substances and the succession of things in motion. 'Single and continuous' connotes having its parts inseparable from one another and 'immovable' connotes by itself capable of no action. From the point of locus that is 'Kshetra' it is infinite, that of time it is eternal and that of Bhava-essence it is tasteless, colourless, odourless and touchless and that of capacity or quantity it is endowed with the quality of accomodation. It has infinite space points, the smallest being described as 'Pradesha'. With Dharma and Adharma it is coextensive though each of them is functionally different. All are mutually interpenetrative. In one Pradesha, all of them are but yet they are different as Dravyas-substances. This would in other words mean a unity of locality with diversity of function and nature. The functional difference is emph cized because all the three are 'Amurta" non-corporeal and there is no other way to differentiate them just as in the case of physical objects which can be differntiated by sense qualities and Ajiva that is living objects by their conscious qualities.
The fifth Ajiva, the objective real is Kala-time. Like all those which have preceded, time has no multi-dimensional magnitude in space. It is only mono-dimensional and yet is a real, a substance, a dravya. Time is a necessary condition of continuity, duration, change (modification), motion, newness and oldness of other substances. Its ultimate indivisible called 'Samaya' in Jainism-a Kala-anu'. The particles of time
point is exist throughout the universe-space, each time-particle being located in each pradesha-space point. They exist one by one like heaps of jewels in every space point. They are formless. Time thus is just not one substances. It consists of minute innumerable indivisible particles which never mix up with one another. It is not a single continuous substance like Dharma, Adharma or Akasha. It is only helpful in the origination and destruction that is modifications of embodied souls and Pudgala like the other three which are helpful as media of motion, rest and subsistence respectively.
