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InJainism,Pudgala (orPudgalāstikāya) is one of the sixDravyas, or aspects of reality that fabricate the world we live in. The sixdravyas include thejiva and the fivefold divisions ofajiva (non-living) category:dharma (motion),adharma (rest),akasha (space),pudgala (matter) andkala (time).[1]Pudgala, like otherdravyas exceptkala is calledastikaya in the sense that it occupies space.
Pudgala is derived from the words 'pud', which is defined as Supplement (Addition /Fusion), and gala, which is defined as Disintegrate, or Division or Fission. Therefore, Pudgalas are best defined as all things that are continuously changing by the process of Supplementation or Disintegration, namely matter.
The individual unit of Pudgala is the material from which all is made called aParamanu, which, by the process of supplementation, can combine to form what can be roughly said is an aggregate, called aSkandha. It possesses at all times fourqualities, namely, a color (varna), a taste (rasa), a smell (gandha), and a certain kind of palpability (sparsha, touch).[2]
InBuddhism,Pudgala means the entity that reincarnates as an individual or person, i.e., thebundle of tendencies that keeps an individual reincarnating until they attainenlightenment.[3]
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