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If the Churnikar did not express the infinite meaning inherent in these Gatha Sutras, it would be impossible to understand their meaning today.
8. A question - While the Kasayapahudu is divided into fifteen chapters and the verses of all the chapters have been separately described, what is the reason that only three verses are mentioned in the first five chapters? Could the Vedaka, use, expression, etc., like the rest of the chapters, not have composed a few verses in the first five chapters? If so, then why was it not done, and why was the subject matter of the five chapters indicated by only three verses? This is a question that cannot remain unanswered in the heart of every practitioner of the text? Although the answer to this question is not easy, studying the situation of the time of Gunadharacharya solves much of the question.
A study of the Churnisutras composed on the first five chapters reveals that the subject matter of these chapters is the same as that described in the Mahakammapaydipahudu. The origin of the Kasayapahudu is the third Pejjadosopahudu of the tenth object of the fifth Purva, while the Mahakammapaydipahudu is the fourth Pahud of the fifth object of the second Purva. Gunadharacharya may not have been a complete reader of the fifth Purva, but he certainly had a fellow student. Therefore, it is proven by inference that he was also proficient in the Mahakammapaydipahed. The fact that he composed the Kasayapahudu proves that the knowledge of the said fifth Purvagata Pahuds had also begun to decline in his time. Along with this, the fact that Gatha Sutras were not composed on the initial five chapters of the Kasayapahudu and only three verses were used to inform about their subject matter proves that since the reading and recitation of the Mahakammapaydipahudu was well established in his time, he considered it unnecessary to compose verses on those chapters and simply informed about it through three verses. But as the verses of the Kasayapahudu reached the time of Yativripabha, the knowledge of the Mahakammapaydipahudu had been fragmented in many parts, and whatever partial knowledge remained was enshrined in scattered texts like Pakhandagama, Kammapaydi, etc., so he considered it appropriate to give a detailed explanation of the first five chapters. This is why, when Gunadharacharya composed only three verses on the first five chapters, Yativripabha composed 3241 Churnisutras on them, which is almost half the total number of Churnisutras; because the total number of Churnisutras of the Kasayapahudu is 7006.
Here it is also noteworthy that the said number of Churnisutras of the first five chapters is not actually five, but only four, because Yativripabha has only informed about the subject matter of the fourth chapter called Bandha through 11 sutras and has clearly stated in them that the four types of Bandha have been described in detail elsewhere (therefore, he does not describe them here). Jayadhavalakar writes at this place that the fourth chapter called Bandha is complete when the entire Mahabandha - whose proof is 30,000 verses - is presented. If Tivripabha had described the four types of Bandha even in a very brief manner like the transition chapter, then the number of Churnisutras of the said chapter would have been about two thousand, because the number of Churnisutras of the transition chapter alone is 1853, while the Churnikar has left the burden of discussing many Anuyoagdwaras on the Uccaranacharyas. If the hypothetical number of Churnisutras of the Bandha chapter is considered to be two thousand, then the number of Churnisutras of the first five chapters would be at least five thousand.