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About the Book Kasāya-pāhuda is the first procanonical Digambara text of early stages of Prākrta having its origin from the chapter (prābhrta) named Preya-dveșa of tenth section of the fifth pre-canon known as Jñānapravāda (Discourse on Knowledge).
It is a text on Karma theory, specially related with one of the most powerful Karma & Deluding Karma (Mohanīya Karma), though names of other Karmas are mentioned as and where necessary. The text prominently deals with deluding Karma and four major classes of passion and their 16 sub-classes along with their synonyms, four-foldness, four-fold bondage, transition, maturation and pre-maturation and means of subsidence and destruction. These passions attract karmic particles polluting the mundane soul.
The karmic pollution leads to four-fold karmic bondage through many processes. The object of life is to debond one-self from Karmas where processes of (i) transition, (ii) attenuation, (iii) augmentation, (iv) inte-nsity, reduction or karmic leaning, (v) subsi-dence and (vi) destruction do occur. The processes of horse-ear-like destruction and that destruction approaching towards omnisciental emanation are also involved here.
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