Outlines of Jainism

Author(s): J L Jaini, F W Thomas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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OUTLINES OF JAINISM
jiva and ajīva. But the contents of this division are arranged and considered in two more ways. Ajira being sub-classified into matter, space, time, dharmu, and uhurmu, we get the six dravyas, substances, of Jainism. These six are then considered as having or not having constituent parts (pradeśas). From this point of view time is the only continuous substance which does not consist of many prudesus, like our bodies. A pradeśu is an infinitesimal unit of space; kaya (or body) is the technical name given to it thing which has prulesus. Time has only one pradeśa ; therefore time has not kāya, is not an astikāya, or a magnitude. The other five are ustikāyas (19-21).
These astikāyas are uncreated; they have the quality of suttū or the characteristic of modifying their condition and continuing their substratum (utpūdla, vyaya, and huruvya) (22). They are also the constituent elements of the Universe (24). They are called ustikūyas, because they have suttă and are therefore asti; and because they have many prudeścs and are therefore Jūya (20). Dhurmu and adhurma have innumerable prudleśus (units of space). Matter has pradeśus which may be numerable, imumerable, or infinite. Thus, a molecule (or skandhi) may be numbered as to its atoms. But some masses camot be numbered as to their atoms, e.g. a mountain. Some other skundhas may contain an infinite number of atoms, as an ocean, the world. Space has infinite pruleśus. But the soul has innumerable pradeśas (22-3).
The soul, space, dharma, and adhurma are iminaterial (comūrtika), unbreakable, and camot be said to have