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This is the thirty-sixth *Samudghāta* chapter of the *Prajñāpanā Sūtra*. It discusses *Samudghāta*, its types, and which *Samudghāta* occurs in which of the twenty-four *Daṇḍakas*. 'Samudghāta' is a technical term in Jain Dharmaśāstra. According to its etymology, it means to strike, injure, or inflict pain with intensity and oneness. The commentator explains it as the intense oneness of the soul with the results of experience, such as pain. Its practical meaning is that by abstaining from other results, pain, etc., quickly bring to fruition many regions of those karmas by stimulation, experience them, and exhaust them, i.e., separate them from the regions of the soul, shake them off. In reality, *Samudghāta* has a close relationship with karmas. To stimulate karmas that are attached to the soul and will be experienced and exhausted after a long time, bring them to the stage of fruition, and then integrate them with pain, etc., and exhaust them - to strike those karmas with intensity is *Samudghāta*. Jain philosophy does not consider the development of the soul without the destruction of karmas attached to it. The purification and development of the soul can be accelerated by the destruction of karmas through *Samudghāta*. Therefore, *Samudghāta* is a spiritual weapon by which the seeker can remain awake, experience the fruits of karma with equanimity, and quickly destroy karmas. For this reason, *Samudghāta* is said to be of seven types: (1) *Vedanasamudghāta*, (2) *Kaṣāyasamudghāta*, (3) *Māraṇāntikasamudghāta*, (4) *Vaikriyasamudghāta*, (5) *Taijasasamudghāta*, (6) *Āhārakasamudghāta*, and (7) *Kevalasamudghāta*. The commentator has explained which *Samudghāta* is dependent on which karma. For example, *Vedanasamudghāta* is dependent on *Asātavedaniya* karma, *Kaṣāyasamudghāta* is dependent on *Cāritramohaniya* karma, *Māraṇāntikasamudghāta* is dependent on *Āyuṣya* karma, *Vaikriyasamudghāta* is dependent on *Vaikriyasharīranāma* karma, *Taijasasamudghāta* is dependent on *Taijassharīranāma* karma, *Āhārakasamudghāta* is dependent on *Āhārakasharīranāma* karma, and *Kevalasamudghāta* is dependent on *Śubha-Aśubhanāmakarma*, *Sāta-Asātavedaniya*, and *Ucca-Nīcagotra* karma.