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TEXTS : METAPHYSICS IV
12. धम्मत्यिकायमरसं अवमगधं असद्द मप्फासं । लोगोगाढं पुट्टं पिहुलमसंखादियपदेमं ॥ ८३ ॥ अगुरुगलघुगेहि सया तेहि अणतेहि परिणदं णिच्च । गदिकिरियाजुत्ताणं कारणभूदं सयमकज्जं ॥ ८४ ॥ उदयं जह मच्छाणं गमला गुग्गहयरं हवदि लोए । तह जीवपुग्गलाणं धम्मं दब्वं वियाहि ॥ ८५ ॥
Pañchāstikāya, 83-5. Dharmāstikāya is devoid of taste, colour, smell, sound, touch, is coterminous with the universe (loka), is indivisible, all-pervading, and has innumerable spatial units (pradeśas); ever operating in virtue of its infinite attributes, including heavy and light; is eternal, and is the essential condition for all moving bodies, and is itself the product of none. As in the (normal) world water is a help to the motion of fishes, in a like manner is the substance dharma, be assured, to that of soul (jira) and matter (ajīva).
13. जह हवदि धम्मदव्वं तह तं जाणिह दवमधम्मक्वं । ठिदिकिरियाजुत्ताणं कारणभूदं तु पुढवीव ॥
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Ibid. 86.
Know that the substance called adharma is of the same kind as the substance dharma. It is the essential condition of stationary things, like the earth.
14. सब्वेसिं जीवाणं सेसाणं तह य पुग्गलाणं च । जं देदि विवरमखिलं तं लोये हवदि आयासं ॥
Ibid. 90.
That which gives place in this universe to all souls and likewise to all other matter that, as a whole, is the substance space (ākāśa).
