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the vices seems to be finally crystallised in the Jaina treatment of vices.2
We should make a note that passion (kasāya) is one of the modes of a soul, mentioned in the preceding chapter (926).
Passions are the main causes of karmic bondage. The causes of reception or collection of all the eight types of karmas in all the 24 classes of living beings in all the three divisions of time ultimately resolve into four passions. The causes not only of the reception or collection of karmas but also of accumulation, bondage, premature realization, realization or rise, and dissociation of karma resolve into these four passions only (964–971).
At the end of this chapter there occurs a recapitulatory verse mentioning the topics of treatment. This suggests that this whole chapter might have come down to Arya Śyāmācārya through tradition.
2. Study 'Kasůyapāhuda' with its commentaries for the detailed account
of preyas and dveşa and four kaşāyas..
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