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Fifth Chapter
SUTRA 7 निष्क्रियाणि च ॥७॥
Niskriyani cha. - (These three are not (capable of) moving (from place to place.) Time substance also is incapable of motion. It is also Niskeriya.
SUTRA 8 असंख्येया : प्रदेशा : धर्माधर्मकजीवालाम् ॥ ८॥ Asankhyeyah pradeshas dharmadharmaika jivanan.
(There are) innumerable Pradeshas of Dharma, Adharma and each soul.
(A Pradesha is the unit of space occupied by an atom of matter.) The number of Pradeshas in Dharma Adharma, a Soul, and Lokakasa, 1. e. the Universe, (z. e all except pure space ) is the same, 1, e. it is innumerable (in all).
The soul fills the whole Universe only in Omniscient overfiow. Otherwise it is extent cqual to its mundane body, except in the Overflow (Samudghata ) See Dravya Samgraha Gatha, 10, Vol. I. S. B | 28-31.
SUTRA 9
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Akashasya-nantah (The Pradeshas ) of space (are) infinite
SUTRA 10 सग्येयाऽसख्येयाश्च पुद्गलानाम् ।। १० ।।
Sankhyeya asankhyayascha padgalanam. (The atoms) of matter (are) numerable, (a Sankhyata), innumerable (edit Asankhyata), and a Ananta, infinite (according to their different molecular compositions,
One atom ot matter, if free, occupies a unit of space 1. e. a Pradesha. Infinite atoms will imply infinite Pradeshas of matter in Lokakasa. But this only if they are all free, . e, the whole matter of the Universe exists only in atomic form. This it does not. There
