History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.29

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The Vaiśeṣika-sūtra treats⁶⁶⁴ Kāla as included in the nine dravyas (substances, I. 5) and states that the indications of the existence of Kāla are the apprehensions of a thing as posterior or prior, the apprehension of simultaneity of certain things, the apprehension of a thing as lasting long or as being momentary, that it is *nttya*, one and the (efficient) cause of all things that are created. Praśastapāda gives the instance of an old man and a young man being seen by a person in one place and direction or in different directions, who apprehends after looking at a young man that another man called old differs from a young man as regards a grown-up moustache or beard, wrinkles on the body and baldness and so apprehends that the old man is remote from the young man and therefore apprehends him as beyond (*para*) while he thinks of the young man as near, posterior and so *apara*.