________________ Verse 90 number of souls (jiva). How is it possible for the space (akasa), of innumerable (asamkhyata) space-points (pradesa), to provide room to all the souls (iva) and the matter (pudgala)? The answer is that even the material (murta) objects have the nature of getting accommodated and of getting transformed into subtle forms. As the lights from many lamps in a room intermingle without causing obstruction to each other, in the same manner, the material (murta) objects can get accommodated in the same space at the same time. It should be understood in this manner from the authority of the Scripture also: "The universe is densely (without inter-space) filled with variety of infinite-times-infinite forms of matter (pudgala) of subtle (suksma) and gross (sthula) nature in all directions." Acarya Umasvami's Tattvarthasutra: Michichte "IE: 114-8711 उपरोक्त समस्त द्रव्यों का अवगाह (स्थान) लोकाकाश में है। These substances - the media of motion and of rest, the souls, and the forms of matter - are located in the universe-space (lokakasa). . . . . . . . . . . 177
