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The **Jayadhavala** has written:
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**Gaathasutraani** are **sutras**, **Churnisutra** is **vartika**.
**Tika** is **Sri Viraseni** and **Shepa**, **Paddhati** and **Panjika** are other commentaries. ||26|| (Jayadhavala Prasasti)
That is, in **Kasayapahuḍaka**, **Gaathasutra** are in the form of **sutras** and their **Churnisutra** are in the form of **vartika**. **Sri Viraseṇācārya** has written the **Jayadhavala** commentary. In addition, all the commentaries available on **Gaathasutra** are either in the form of **Paddhati** or **Panjika**.
See in the words of **Jayadhavala** himself how he views the **Gaathasutra** and **Churnisutra** of the present text with devotion and faith. At one place, when a disciple asked him how to know, **Viraseṇācārya** replied:
"This, emanating from the **Vipulacala** † peak, where the **Vardhamana** sun shines, having emerged from the **Gautama**, **Loharya** and **Jambusvami** etc. **Acharya** tradition, having reached **Gunadhara** **Acharya**, having become **Gaathasutra**, having been received by **Aryamantu** and **Nagahasti** through **Yativṛpabha**, and having been received by their mouth-lotus, has become **Churnisutra** in the form of divine sound rays." (Jayadhavala, Letter 313)
The reader will experience for himself that the divine sound that manifested from **Bhagavan Mahavira** was spread by **Gautama** etc., reached **Gunadhara** **Acharya**, and then was transformed by him into **Gaathasutra**, and then reached **Aryamantu** and **Nagahasti** through the **Acharya** tradition, and then reached **Yativṛpabha** through them, and then the same divine sound manifested in the form of **Churnisutra**. Therefore, everything stated in **Churnisutra** is in the form of divine sound, and there is no room for any doubt or suspicion. The way in which the truth of the matter is presented in the present **Kasayapahuḍ** and its **Churnisutra** proves that "it is spoken by the omniscient."
No literature written under the name **Churni** is found in other Indian literature besides the **Jain** literature. In both the **Digambara** and **Svetambara** traditions of the **Jains**, many works are available under the name **Churni**, but in both traditions, no other **Churni** author older than the **Digambara** **Shraman** **Yativṛpabha** has been found so far.
The **Churni** of **Acharya** **Yativṛpabha** on the present **Kasayapahuḍ** is presented before the readers. In addition, the **Churnis** available on three other texts on the subject of karma, namely **Kammapayḍi**, **Sataka** and **Sittari**, are also written by **Acharya** **Yativṛṣabha**, which is proved with evidence in the introduction of this text. A brief introduction to these four texts with **Churni** is as follows:
1. **Kasayapahuḍchurni** - **Shraman** **Gunadhara**-authored 233 **Gaathasutra**-based **Kasayapahuḍ** text -
"**Vochyami suttagāhā javigāhā jammi pratyammi** || 2 ||
**Pacheva suttagāhā damanamohassa khavareṇāe** || 5 ||
**Edā suttagāhāo turā praṣṇā bhānagāhāy** || 10 || **Kasayapāṭ**
This is the name of the mountain near **Rajagirika** in the **Vihar** province.