Indian Philosophy v2.c24.s19.78

v2.c24.s19.78

The distinction between time and space is noticed in the Vaiśeṣika treatises. Space deals with coexistence, time with successions, or more accurately, space deals with visible objects, while time deals with things produced and destroyed.⁶ Śaṁkara Miśra holds that the relations of time are constant or irreversible (niyata), while those of space are not irreversible (aniyata).⁷ Things move by virtue of time and hold together by virtue of space. While space and time cover the most comprehensive kinds of relations, transition from place to place, or state to state, spatial locomotion and temporal alternation, they are only formal and imply real things which move and change.