These substances have some common attributes or gunas such as:
*Astitva (existence): indestructibility; permanence; the capacity by which a substance cannot be destroyed.
*Vastutva (functionality): capacity by which a substance has function.
*Dravyatva (changeability): capacity by which it is always changing in modifications.
*Prameyatva (knowability): capacity by which it is known by someone, or of being the subject-matter of knowledge.
*Agurulaghutva (individuality): capacity by which one attribute or substance does not become another and the substance does not lose the attributes whose grouping forms the substance itself.
*Pradeshatva (spatiality): capacity of having some kind of location in space.
There are some specific attributes that distinguish the dravyas from each other:
*Chetanatva (consciousness) and amurtavta (immateriality) are common attributes of the class of substances soul or jiva.
*Achetanatva (non-consciousness) and murtatva (materiality) are attributes of matter.
*Achetanatva (non-consciousness) and amurtavta (immateriality) are common to Motion, Rest, Time and Space.