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Niyamasāra
नियमसार
लोयायासपदेसे इक्केक्के जे छिया हु इक्केक्का । रयणाणं रासीमिव ते कालाणू असंखदव्वाणि ॥२२॥
जो लोकाकाश के एक-एक प्रदेश पर रत्नों की राशि के समान परस्पर भिन्न होकर एक-एक स्थित हैं, वे कालाणु हैं; और वे कालाणु असंख्यात हैं।
The real time (niscaya kāla) is of the extent of space-points of the universe, pervading the entire universe. Each particle or unit of the real time is distinct and occupies one unit of space; these innumerable particles of the real time, thus, exist in the entire universe (lokākāśa), like heaps of jewels.
The 'samaya’exists because transformation (pariņamana) takes place in an indivisible (akhanda) substance (dravya) as it associates with separate kālāņu, which do not unite with each other. The mode (paryāya) of the substance of time (kāla) - the 'samaya' - manifests in the slow movement of the atom of matter - the pudgala-paramāņu. That which neither originates nor vanishes with the origination or destruction of the mode, i.e., the 'samaya', is the kālānu, the substance of time (kāla dravya). The mode that is the 'samaya' is transient, the kālānu or the substance of time (kāla dravya) is eternal.1
1 - Acārya Kundakunda's Pravacanasāra - Essence of the Doctrine, p. 180.
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