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Just as the authoritative accounts of the entire scripture are given in the beginning, in the same way, subject-collecting verses are also presented at the beginning of many chapters. For example, verses are given at the beginning and end of the 3rd, 18th, 20th, and 23rd chapters. Similarly, verses are given at the end of the 18th chapter of the 10th chapter and in the middle of the text, as needed. Excluding the interpolated verses, there are a total of 231 verses, and the rest is prose. / Who is the author of the Sangrahani verses in the Prajnapana Sutra? Nothing can be said about this. / The total number of verses in the presented Pragama is 7887. / In some places, the Sutra text is very long, in some places it is extremely short, full of exaggeration. In some places, the same subject has been repeated. It is mostly a systematic compilation, but in some places, it has also been compiled in reverse order. The subject of all the chapters of the Prajnapana is in accordance with Jain principles. Just as in the Bhagavati Sutra, in the beginning of many initiators or chapters, sometimes the views of others are given, and then their own principles are presented, this is not done in the presented Prajnapana Sutra. In it, almost everywhere, questions and answers related to their own principles are marked in the question-and-answer style. Acharya Shri Malayagiri has connected the topics presented in the Prajnapana with the description of the seven principles of Jiva, Ajiva, etc. in this way: 1-2 Jiva-Ajiva = Chapters 1, 3, 5, 10, and 13, 3 Pasava = Chapters 16 and 22, 4 Bandha = Chapter 23, 5-6-7 Samvara, Nirjara, and Moksha = Chapter 36. Apart from these chapters, in the remaining chapters, the description of some principle is found somewhere. Acharya Malayagiri has included Dravya in the first chapter, Kshetra in the second chapter, Kala in the fourth chapter, and Bhava in the remaining chapters from the Jain perspective. In this text, the topics have not been described by first making characteristics, but by explaining them through divisions and sub-divisions. Therefore, this text is division-based, not characteristic-based. / The Prajnapana-Upanga is a compilation of Arya Shyamacharya; but this does not mean that he himself presented all the things mentioned in it after considering them. His purpose was to collect facts from the Shruta tradition and compile them in a particular way. For example, the divisions of Jiva that are mentioned in the first chapter, were not presented by taking those divisions and making the second place, etc., doors happen, but the thoughts of place, etc., doors, which were present in various forms before the Acharyas, they collected and compiled those thoughts in those doors and chapters. Therefore, this is 18. Pannavanasuttam Bha. 2, Preface p. 10-11 19. Pannavanasuttam (Original Text) Bha. 1 p. 446 20. Prajnapana. Malayavritti, Folio 5 21. Pannavanasuttam Bha. 2 Preface p. 13 [21]