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## Kashaya Pahuḍa Sutra
This is a question about the Kashaya Pahuḍa Sutra. There are some verses that also provide information about the subject matter. There are also some question-based verses that the author has answered himself with commentary verses, because without these commentary verses, it would be difficult, if not impossible, to understand the meaning of the subject matter. This is why Jayadhavala has called these verses "pregnant with infinite meaning." The importance of the verses is evident from the fact that Ganadhara Prathita, in the Pejjadosa Pahuḍa, which had sixteen thousand medium verses, i.e., whose number of letters was two koḍakoḍi, sixty-one lakh seventy-seven thousand two hundred ninety-two crore, sixty-two lakh, eight thousand, has condensed the essence of this vast and extensive work into just 233 verses. From this, the reader can infer the importance of the present work and the unparalleled scholarship of the author.
## Comparison of Kashaya Pahuḍa with other texts
Just as the Kashaya Pahuḍa was created in a concise form through verses, summarizing the extensive Pejjadosa Pahuḍa, which was preceded by the Knowledge Discourse, in the same way, various limbs of the Shruta that were gradually disappearing at that time, and the summaries of the previous ones, were compiled in different forms by various Acharyas who were experts in their respective subjects. The author of the Shataka Prakarana, while concluding it, writes:
> "This is a brief statement about nature, state, section, and regional bondage, which I have made in a very concise form, as a drop from the ocean of Shruta, which is in the form of Karma Pravada." (104)
This quote clearly shows that the Shataka Prakarana originated from the eighth Purva, called Karma Pravada, and this Prakarana is a concise version of it.
There is a Prakarana called Sittari, consisting of seventy verses, which deals with the destruction of the places related to karma, bondage, arising, and essence. The author begins it by writing:
> "I declare, through the Siddha Pada, in a concise form, the places of bondage, arising, and essence of karma. Listen, O disciple." (1)
This statement, though concise, is of great significance and is a drop from the ocean of Dristivada, i.e., it is the essence.
While explaining the fourth line of this verse, the Churnikar says:
> "Nissandaṁ Didivayasssa" means the Didivaya of the Parikammas, the Suttas, the Padamasuyoga, the Punyagaya, the Chuliyamaya, and the Panchvihamulbheya. There, the fourteen sons of the Shruta, who are the bearers of the Shruta, are the Didivaya." (Jayadhavala)