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NOTES
01. The term 'Pāhuda' is a Jinistic technical term, which has a
Saṁskrta form as 'Prābhrta', which means a basket or presentation. However, many texts define it in terms of an explanatory composition through syllables on a specified topic having a specific size in terms of number of verses. It may contain up to twenty topics in terms of versified or general aphorisms. It has a synonym of 'Adhikāra', which means a chapter. It is stated that the scriptural texts have many sections (called Vastus) each of which contains twenty chapters (Prābhrtas) each of which contains 24 sub-chapters (Prābhỉta-prābhịta) each. (See details in 'Introduction'). The first verse indicates the canonical origin of the Chapters on Passions or Attachment and Aversion". The Jaina canons are four-foldly classified in terms of (i) Precanons (Pűrvas or Pre-Mahaviran), (ii) Primary Canons (Angas), (iii) Secondary Canons (Angabāhyas) and (iv) Procanons (of Digambaras). There are 14 Pre-canons, 12 Primary canons and 14 Secondary canons as per Digambaras and 34 or more as per Svetāmbaras. Their details are given in the
commentary and tabulated as below in Tables 1-3. The tables below do not indicate Digambara texts like Şațkhandāgama and this text itself in any of their categories. However, Upadhye, J.P. Jain, Dundas and others have stated them in a separate category of pro-canons mentioned in table 1 of 'Introduction'. They have different sources of scriptural origin:
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