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The portions of the Ṣaṭkhaṇḍāgama were received from the Ācārya-paramparā, and he has collected them as they are. This is why its name 'Kammapayadīsaṅgahaṇī' is meaningful.
From the many sūtra gāthās available in the Ṣaṭkhaṇḍāgama, it is clear that it was compiled in the Mahākammapayadīpāhuḍ gāthās. Those gāthās were received by Dharasenācārya and were also memorized. Based on them, he gave lectures to Puṣpadanta and Bhūtabali. Based on them, he composed his Ṣaṭkhaṇḍāgama. Due to the subject matter, he has written down the gāthās that he heard from his guru and read. Many gāthās of the Mahākammapayadīpāhuḍ, on which he based his composition of the Ṣaṭkhaṇḍāgama, were received by Ācārya Śivasarma from the Ācārya-paramparā, and he collected them in his composition. So, can they be considered as his composition? In the Go. Jīvakāṇḍa and Karmakāṇḍa, there are hundreds of gāthās that have been circulating for a long time before their author. Just because they are collected in his Gommatasāra, they cannot be considered as composed by him.
The meaning of all the above statements is that even though the composition of Kammapayadī may be later than the Ṣaṭkhaṇḍāgama, it contains many gāthās that have been circulating since ancient times. The Ṣaṭkhaṇḍāgama author had knowledge of them, and based on them, he created the sūtras of certain places. There is no objection or criticism in believing this.
The basis of Jīvasthāna
The first chapter of the Ṣaṭkhaṇḍāgama is Jīvasthāna. Its origin is explained by Dhavalakāra in the sixth chapter of the Mahākammapayadīpāhuḍ, called Bandhana, under the fourth division of Bandhavidhāna, called Bhandhavidhāna, through various divisions and sub-divisions of the Avantara-Adhikāra. We have already clarified this through the pictures etc. given at the beginning of the introduction. The main subject of Jīvasthāna is to describe the various states of the jīva through eight forms of Sat, Saṅkhyā, etc. There is no doubt that the original source of Jīvasthāna was the Mahākammapayadīpāhuḍ. And since the bound jīva, due to the karma-bandha, does not know its form, number, etc., until then, it is not important to describe the divisions and sub-divisions of karma and their form, etc. Therefore, Bhagavat Puṣpadanta considered it appropriate to first describe the form, etc. of the jīvas through the Sat, Saṅkhyā, etc. Anuyo gadvār. In this way, the composition of the first chapter called Jīvasthāna began.
But as I have given comparative excerpts of the gāthās found in different texts composed before the Ṣaṭkhaṇḍāgama, based on the sūtra gāthās found in the Vedana and Vargaṇākhaṇḍa,