The Doctrine of the Jainas, Described after the Old Sources c8.20

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394a incl. comm.). The number of the units is ∞ with the total space as well as with souls and matter, and 1 with motion and rest (148a) and with the space of the world (421a, 610a, 873b). Moreover there are 8 centremost units (*majjhā-paesa*), which, each with motion, rest and space are supposed (acc. to comm.) to exist in the centre of the upper regions of the world, called the Ruyaga, in Rayaṇappabhā (§107), with the souls within their resp. bodies. They will occupy 1 to 6 or either 8, but *vastu-svabhāvat* not 7 units of space (Viy. 886a, 395b). In the realm of space we meet the 4 main and the 4 intermediate directions (*disā and vidisā*) in addition to zenith (*uddham*) and nadir (*aho*). Their are given as *indā, jāmā, vāruṇī, somā; aggei, nerai, vāyavod, isāṇī; vimalā, tamā* (see Viy. 492b).¹ Acc. to the comm. they are of two-resp. one-dimensional shape.² The pole from which they start (Viy. 606a, Ṭhāṇ, 477b) is a square cube³ of 8 *paesa*.