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The Fundamental Verses of the Karmagranthi
Verses of the First Karmagranthi
I bow to the victorious Jina. The Karmavivarana (exposition of karma) is summarized. It is done by the soul as the cause, by which it experiences karma. (1)
The four-fold nature of the Mokshadhara (path to liberation) is described. The primary nature and the secondary nature, the difference of a hundred and eight, (2)
Thus, the knowledge-obscuring, faith-obscuring, feeling-obscuring, and life-obscuring (karmas), the name and gotra (lineage) (karmas). The enumeration of the twenty-eight and the four hundred and fifty (karmas). (3)
The pure knowledges - Mati, Sruta, Avadhi, and Kevala - are there. In that, Mati-jnana (sensory knowledge) is fourfold, with the distinction of the four modes of mind. (4)
Aticharya, Ihavaya, Dharana - these six are the activities of the mind. The twenty-two and the fourteen, the twenty, and the six - these are the subtle, the gross, the mixed, and the perfect (stages of the soul). (5)
The seven stages of the Angapravritti (manifestation of the soul's qualities) are thus explained. (6)
The Paryaya (modifications), the Akshara (indestructible), the Prayoga (application), the Pratipatti (realization), the Anuyoga (scriptural exposition), the Pahuda (preliminary), the Palungya (advanced), the Pahudavatthu (subject matter of the preliminary), and the Purvayoga (previous exposition) - all these are summarized. (7)