The Doctrine of the Jainas, Described after the Old Sources c8.143

c8.143

The quaternary nikkheva is extended by “place” (khetta) and “time” (kāla), occasionally also by “way of being” (guṇa), comp. Viy. 147b. The world, the soul and both the residence of the Siddha and the siddha themselves are davvao and khettao finite but kālao and bhāvao infinite (Viy. 177b); the souls are in themselves everlasting, whereas with regard to their condition they are not (Viy. 299b). Less uniform than these disquisitions are statements directly gained from the subject in question: the beings considered as a whole (avocchitti-nay’aṭṭhayāe) are everlasting, while when considered individually (vocchitti-nay’a.) they are not (Viy. 302a), or, among others, food and drink (oyaṇa, kummāsa, sura), according to their origin (puvva-bhāva-paṇṇavaṇaṃ paḍucca), must be called an accumulation of vegetable or, resp., watery substances, and after being heated a community of fiery substances (Viy. 213a). In the latter argument as well as in some others including such that do not reflect on the same object by approaching it from different points of view as davva and bhāva (e.g. Viy. 65b, 103b, 110b;