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68: Śramana, Vol 64, No. 2, April-June 2013 and Svetāmbara views on the conception of substance. Only this concept has been made clearer by the sūtra 'sat-dravyalaksanam?. 13 Jinabhadragani made a veritable catalogue of all the interpretations of the term 'dravya' prevalent during his time and explained the etymology of the word.To quote his words, 'davaye duyate doravayavo vigāro guņāṇasaņdāvo / davvam bhavvaṁ bhāvassa bhūva bhāvam ca joggaṁ. ' *4
Ac. Hemacandra while enunciating the nature of object of Pramāņa in the words of Akalanka's, employs the term 'dravya’in the sense of something permanent or static (dhruvabhāvaló, śāśvata, sthira) which is in agreement with its interpretations made by the Āgamas, grammatical texts and other Indian systems of thought. The etymological derivation which he suggests in this connection is the one that has been offered in the kịt section, viz. dru + suffix ya." Ac. Kundakunda also explains that dravya is the inherent essence of all things, manifesting itself in and through infinite modifications, and is endowed with guņa- capacities or qualities and reveals permanence, change, inherent therein to be real. 18 Dravya is endowed with its unchanging nature of existence. Āc. Pūjyapāda defines thus, that which undergoes modification is substance. This modification takes place in the same way as the original lump of gold undergoes modification having its original form destroyed (vyaya) and a new form born (utpāda) but the substance gold continues or persists (dhrauvya) in this process of change. Thus, dravya endowed with quality and modes is conceived as Reality. For every substance possessing the quality of permanency (dhrauvya) consists in the persistence of its fundamental characteristics throughout its various modifications. Sat is the characteristic of dravya and origination, decay and permanence characterize Reality-sat-dravya. Thus, dravya means destruction modification or state) and decay (vyaya) and permanency (dhrauvya). General and specific attributes of Substance! In Jainism, each substance has infinite attributes. Some attributes
