Chapter on Passion

SR No.: 001602
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: N L Jain
Publisher: Parshwanath Vidyapith
Publication Year: 2005
Total Pages: 358
Language: English, Prakrit
Classification: Book_English, Religion, & Canon
File Size: 13 MB

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Introduction
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pure and natural with its properties of infinite knowledge, conation, potency and bliss. The destruction process leads to destructional righteousness.
The karmic destruction may be non-fruitional and partial. For ending the worldly cycle, all the Karmas must be totally destroyed. The destruction process of FD and CD Karmas has been dealt with in chapters 11 and 15 of KP. The details are given in the last subchapter.
Summarily, it could be stated that the karmic destruction passes through the following stages:
Bonding → transition
→ IR
→ destruction
Some Specific Terms: (a) Pāhuda
There are some more technical terms in KP, which should also be clarified here. The first of them is the word 'Prābhrta' (Pāhuda) itself.
Dr. G. C. Jain has opined that the term 'Pāhuda' had many connotations and it has two related words like 'Pāhuda-pāhuda' and pāhudikā. It has two synonyms: adhikāra and arthādhikāra. Vīrasena states the term is made up of two words: Prābhỉta = Pra + Ābhịta which means established or elaborated by the best or ford-builder or Ācāryas. Secondly, Yativrşabha has grammatically derived the word 'pāhuda' in many stages from Pada + sphuţa → pa-a + sphuta → pā-sphuta → pāphuta → pā-muda → pā-huda which means any context elaborated through syllables or lines (Padas). If it is Kaşāya-pähuda, it means syllables related with passions. The term 'pāhuda' may also refer to specific size and subject content of the text catered by twenty doctrinal verses (of course with many explanatory verses). Though, this definition