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## Introduction
## Gatha Sutra
In addition to the prose Sutras, there are 5 Gatha Sutras in the Vedana Khand and 28 in the Vargana Khand, which are found in the complete recitation of the original Sutras of the Shatkhandagama. The first three Gatha Sutras are given to illustrate the concept of alpabahutva (lesser and greater) related to the sections of the Uttaraprakritis, while describing the Vedana-abhava-vidhana-anuyogadvara in the Vedana Khand. Based on these three Gatha Sutras, further Sutra-creation is done, and it is called A. Bhootbali.
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"To us, the Maha-danda of sixty-four pada is worthy."
(Shatkhand, p. 621)
This means that now it is appropriate to discuss the Maha-danda of sixty-four pada. Subsequently, through 52 Sutras, the details of the pada of those three Gatha are described. In the Uththani-kama of this sixty-four pada, Dhwala-kar writes:
"For the benefit of those with dull intellect, Acharya Uttar-sutra explains the meaning of the Maha-danda related to alpabahutva of the excellent section, which is described by these three Gatha, containing sixty-four pada."
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The first Gatha among those three Gatha Sutras is as follows:
"Sada, Jasucc, De, Kan, Te, A, Ve, Manu, Anant-guna-hina | O, Micch, Ke, Asada, Viriya, Ananta-anu-sanjalana || 1 ||"
A. Bhootbali has created 19 Sutras by taking each word or pada of this Gatha. For example:
Savva-manda-anu-bhagam, Sada, Vedaniya || 66 || Jas-gitti, Uccha-agoda, Cha, Do, Vi, Tullaani, Ata-guna-hinaani || 67 || Deva-gadi, Anant-guna-hina || 68 || Kamma-iya-sarira, Anant-guna-hina || 69 || Te-ya-sarira, Anant-guna-hina || 70 || Ahar-sarira, Anant-guna-hina || 71 || Ve-uvviya-sarira, Anant-guna-hina || 72 || Manus-gadi, Anant-guna-hina || 73 || Ora-aliya-sarira, Anant-guna-hina || 74 || Micchatt
• Anant-guna-hina || 75 || Kevala-nana-avaran-iya, Kevala-dansa-avaran-iya, Asada-vedaniya, Viriya-antara-iya, Cha, Chattar-vi-tullaani, Anant-guna-hinaani || 76 || Ananta-anu-bandhi-lobho, Anant-guna-hina || 77 || Maya-visesha-hina || 78 || Krodho, Visesha-hina || 79 || Mano, Visesha-hina || 80 || Sanjalana-ara, Lobha, Anant-guna || 81 || Maya, Visesha-hina || 82 || Kodho, Visesha-hina || 83 || Mano, Visesha-hina || 84 || (Present text, 621-22)
The purpose of giving such a large excerpt here is so that the reader can experience for themselves how, from each word of the Gatha, which is like a symbolic indication, its complete meaning is explained through prose Sutras.