Book Title: Tattvartha Sutram
Author(s): J L Jaini
Publisher: Champat Rai Jain

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________________ अध्याय पांचवा CHAPTER V SUTRA 1 प्रजीवकाया धर्माधर्माकाशपुद्गलाः॥१॥ Ajivakaya dharna dharmakasha pudgalah. The non-soul extensive (substances are :) Dharma, medium of motion to soul and matter, San Adharma, rest START Akasha, space and; and g Pudgala, matter. #14 Kaya means extensive, 1. e., having extent like the body, 1. e., occupying more than one 7 Pradesha, spatial Unit, or point. * Kala, times has no extent, because its innumerable points, kalanus are packed full like a heap of jewels in universal space, but are never united one with the other. SUTRA 2 ufu il pot Dravyani. (They are also called) dravyas, substances 6 Dravyas . The basic distinction is one It is seen, it is un deniable. It is the distiction between the (the I) and the chair on which I sit. Technically it 18 the distinction between Jiva and Ajiva. It is perfect in Logic, and uni versally observable in experience Grouped round both of these and making these two, know able and describable are time and space. Time and space are not one. Similarly the motion or rest-which are also observable in men and matter-are not one, though there is nothing which is neither at rest, nor in motion, Each condition is a condition of rest or motion. Thus we get Jiva, soul, Ajiva, non-soul including matter, time, space, media of motion and of rest. Substance is a group of attributes which are never separable one from the other. It is like a lump of sugar, every atom

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