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TATTVÄRTHA SŪTRA
CHAPTER 5 INANIMATE MATTER
After a detailed description of the living beings in the last three A chapters, the venerable author now describes the next fundamental verity – the non-living matter, in this chapter.
Inanimate Matter – • Ajīvakāyā dharmādharmākāśapudgalāh ||1|| Dharmastikāya, Adharmāstikāya, Ākāśāstikāya, and Pudgala
astikāya are the four inanimate bodies. (1)
Fundamental Matters -
• Dravyāni jīvāścā || 2 || (These four) and 'Jīva are dravya or matter. (2)
• Nityāvasthitänyarūpāni | 3 || • Rūpinah pudgalāh || 4 || These dravyas – matter are eternal, immutable and formless.
Pudgala (tangible) matter has form. (3-4)
• Āākāśādekadravyāni || 5 || • Niskriyāni ca || 6|| Matter up to Ákāśāstikāya including Dharmāstikāya and
Adharmastikāya, are singular. They are inert, too. (5-6)
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