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(aggregate of atoms), but it is of the nature of the anu. magnitude, therefore it has no kāyatva. It is not an astikāya. non-dimensional. The time series are always in forward direction (ūrdhva pracaya). It is a linear series.1 The span of Kāla is considered to be uni-dimensional. Dharma and Adharma and the pañca dravyas except Kāla have three dimensional forms. In these, there are aggregates of many points that Kala always moves in one direction, it is forward-looking. Every point of time is discrete and at a particular moment of time the present alone exists and the past has gone and the future has to come. Therefore, here is only one samaya every time. Therefore, there is no possibility of aggregate of time (skandha). As it is mono-dimensional, it cannot present a reverse direction i. e., tiryak pracaya. Therefore kala is not considered an astikāya. FORMS OF TIME (KĀLA)
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Sthānānga2 mentions four types of Kala: 1. pramāņa kāla, (measurable time), 2. Yathayunirvṛttikala (life span time of a jīva) 3. Maraṇakāla (moment of death) and 4. Addhākāla (time relative to the movement of sun and moon).
Conventional measurement of Kāla is impossible and is possible through the changes in the objects. The life and death are two relative spans of time. The duration of life is considered as yathayunirvṛtti kāla and the cessation of the duration of life is death and is called the maraṇakāla.
The measurement of time based on the revolutions of the sun and the moon is called the addhākāla. It is a primary distinction of measurement of time. The other distinctions are forms of this distinction. This is the phenomenal measurement of time with a practical purpose of determining the span of time. Therefore, this is restricted to the human world and it is meant to measure the various distinctions of time for human activities. We have already said that the real time i. e., niscaya kāla, is the mode of jīva and ajīva. And it is all pervading both in the Loka and Aloka. There are no divisions in real time. All the divisions from samaya to
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