dravya

Natal sources (rdzas, Skt. dravya) of things – that which gives rise to something or from which something arises.

Causes, Conditions, and Results 2005

With the help of this they prove that all things -- which they declare to consist of substance (dravya), and paryâya -- to be existing, one and permanent in so far as they are substances, and the opposite in so far as they are paryâyas.

The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 George Thibaut 1881

For as genus (jâti) and quality (guna), so substances (dravya) also may occupy the position of determining attributes (viseshana), in so far namely as they constitute the body of something else.

The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 George Thibaut 1881

The world further comprises six substances (dravya), viz. souls (jîva), merit (dharma), demerit (adharma), bodies (pudgala), time (kâla), and space (âkâsa).

The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 George Thibaut 1881