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discussion is with reference to knowledge. If, therefore, any name can at all be given to that chapter it should be Jñāna Kāņda or Upayoga Käņda. Now looking to the fact that there is no particular name given to the third chapter, it seems that the original author did not assign any particular names to these three chapters, but afterwards some other person gave these significant names according to his own ideas as to the contents of these chapters and might have committed a blunder in assigning the name of Jīva Kāņda to the second chapter or it might be a mistake of the scribe. It is difficult to say whether any particular name was given to the third chapter or if at all it was given it later on slipped away from the subsequent copies of the manuscript. In order to decide this point many manuscripts ancients as well as modern must be collected and comparatively studied. The three particular narnes given by us to the chapters, as Naya Mimāṁsā, Jñāna Mimāṁsā and Jñeya. Mimāṁsā in keeping with the contents of the chapters, will be found in the present edition. These names are given in order to make clear the contents of the present work.
The designation Kāņda is found given to sections in Vedic works such as Atharvaveda, Satpatha brāhmaṇa, and others and also to the chapters of Rāmāyaṇa, the ancient Hindu epic. The word Kānda seems to be reminiscent of the forest life of the ancient Indians. In the whole of the ancient Jaina literature, there does not occur the word Kāņda as applied to the chapters of any work. The first use of this word in the sense of a chapter of a work is, as
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