Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 3

Author(s): Hemchandracharya, Helen M Johnson
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra

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CHAPTER FOUR except matter. But all have the nature of origination, perishing, and permanence.
Matter is characterized by touch, taste, smell, and color. It is two-fold with reference to atoms and aggregates. Of these atoms are not joined.182 Aggregates are joined, characterized by union, 183 sound, fineness, coarseness, and shape; having the nature of darkness, heat, light, division, and shadow; producing karma, body, mind, speech, action, and breathing; furnishing the medium of pleasure, pain, life, and death.
The medium of motion, medium of rest, and space are each single substanced, formless, inactive, and always changeless. The medium of rest and the medium of motion are unchanging, consisting of innumerable pradeśas in the room of one soul, having penetrated the space of the universe. When soul and non-soul themselves have started to move, the medium of motion is everywhere a companion, like water of sea-monsters. The medium of rest is a companion of souls and matter which have themselves reached a location, like a shadow of people going along a road.
Space is all-pervading, self-supported, affording place, constantly penetrates the universe and non-universe, 184 and has infinite units. 186
182 266. Atoms (aņu or paramāņu) are indivisible parts of skandha, separated from skandha (an aggregate, or object). Aņu (unit of space) is practically the same as pradeśa, but pradeśa is an indivisible part of skandha joined to skandha, whereas aņu is an indivisible part separated from skandha. A collection of pradeśas joined together makes a skandha. .
188 267. I have read bandha here, though without MS. authority. The emendation is slight. Gandha has been mentioned above and bandha seems required here. Cf. T. 5.24.
184 273. Space is the only substance which extends beyond loka into aloka.
188 273. Ananta means without limit, whereas asankhya means that there is a limit to the number of pradeśas, though they can not be counted.
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