Conclusion of chapter 1

The learned physician who has crossed the ocean of the scriptures should first judge the patient's life span, then understand the disease fully and work methodically to remove it, so guarding his good name every day. The work is likened to a drop from the ocean of scripture issued from the Jina's mouth, whose waves are all substances and principles and whose two shores are the means for this world and the next; yet it is the one benefactor of the world, which the commentary says is why it is named Kalyāṇakāraka.