Chapter on Passion

Author(s): N L Jain
Publisher: Parshwanath Vidyapith

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Introduction : (9)
different chapters. It is clear that chapter 15 has the largest number of verses to the tune of 114 (including explanatory verses).
However, the commentator points out some difference of opinion regarding the names of fifteen chapters as indicated by Yativṛṣabha, the curņi-author (Analytical commentary) and Virasena himself. However, the verse 14 mentions a new name of 'Addhāparimāṇa' (duration) which is, in effect, not independent chapter but it is an all-chapter connecting one not included in 15 chapters or 180 verses.
Despite some differences in names, the contents of the book do not become discordant as the topics of all kinds of chapter, are covered in 180 verses. The karmic transition-related 35 verses (24-58) are commentary verses related with the fifth chapter on Bonder as the process takes place during bonding. Thus, the additional verses are connecting or commentary verses related with specific or all chapters. The topics dealt with in them are neither irrelevant nor unmentioned chapter as Dixit (Jain Ontology 1971, p.52-53) has indicated.
are
the book:
01.
Besides, these fifteen chapters, there are two more sections in
02.
12-verse appendix on the chapter on destruction of CD Karma
and
Last Large Chapter on process of destruction (Paścima skandha)
Though KP formally ends with appended verses, but its final end is at the last chapter.