Below is a concise, line-by-line articulation of core Jain concepts about karma, bondage, and moksha, with notes on where Digambara and Śvetāmbara readings differ. I’m keeping to widely taught Jain ideas and indicating where interpretations diverge between the two major traditions.

1) Karma (Karma-Śāstra)

• Core idea: Karma is subtle matter that binds to the soul (jiva) due to mental, verbal, and bodily activities.
• Śvetāmbara view (general): Karma attaches because of misdirection of mind and passions (abhibhāva of delusion, attachment, anger, pride, deceit). Karma particles form due to activities and desires.
• Digambara view (general): Similar mechanism, but emphasis often placed on renunciation, discipline, and internal purification as primary means to stop new karmic influx; some texts enumerate karmic types with different nuance.
• Function: Karmic particles veil true nature (pure consciousness) and shape experiences—pleasure and pain—across lifetimes.
• Key distinction hint: Both traditions agree on the binding role of passions, but they differ in enumerations, terminology, and emphasis on which practices most directly arrest karmic influx (e.g., more ascetic emphasis in Digambara contexts vs. a broader scriptural framework in Śvetāmbara contexts).

2) Bondage (Bandh or Bandha)

• Core idea: Bondage is the accumulation and adhesion of karmic particles to the soul, caused by passion-driven actions.
• Śvetāmbara nuance: Often framed within a structured catalog of karmic types (e.g., binding, obstructive, aristocratic) and a systematic path of purification (श्रेयस) through ethical conduct, study, and meditation.
• Digambara nuance: Tends to stress the practical path of strict restraint, ahimsa (non-harm), and intense inner purification; some texts highlight the role of austerities (tapas) and detachment as primary forces that prevent further bondage.
• Result: Bondage disguises the true nature of the soul and dictates the cycle of births and deaths (samsara).

3) Moksha (Libération)

• Core idea: Moksha is the realization of the soul’s pure, infinite nature, achieved by shedding all karmic bondage.
• Śvetāmbara articulation: Liberation occurs when all karmic particles—both today’s and accumulated past—are completely burnt off or shed, leaving the jiva in its pristine, infinite awareness; knowledge (prajña), right faith (saddharma), and right conduct (samyak-ācāra) are central to progress toward moksha.
• Digambara articulation: Similar aim, with particular emphasis on monastic discipline, austerities, and the absolute detachment required to exhaust remaining karma; the path often foregrounds direct experiential realization through rigorous practice.
• Practical route common to both: Right view, right knowledge, and right conduct integrated with active elimination of new karma through ethical living, meditation, and restraint.

4) Line-by-line synthesis (practitioner-facing)

• Karma binds the soul through intentional actions driven by passion.
• Bondage arises as karmic particles accumulate on the jiva due to attachment, anger, deceit, and pride.
• Purification occurs as one stops creating new karma and gradually sheds existing karma via right conduct and disciplined practice.
• Moksha is achieved when the soul remains free of karmic contamination, revealing its true, infinite nature.

5) Where the readings differ (summary)

• Textual focus: Śvetāmbara scholarship often foregrounds the framework found in canonical sutras like Tattvartha and related commentaries; Digambara scholarship emphasizes monastic discipline, renunciation, and the practical eradication of karma through austere practices.
• Karmic taxonomy: Both traditions agree on karma as a binding principle, but they differ in details of categories, enumeration, and the precise mechanisms stressed for stopping influx versus burning off existing karma.
• Path emphasis: Śvetāmbara readings may present a broader epistemic path (faith, knowledge, conduct) with scriptural authority; Digambara readings frequently stress renunciation and tapas as the decisive engines for purification.
• Practical consequences: In daily devotion and practice, Śvetāmbara communities might emphasize study and ethical duties with a scholastic tone, while Digambara communities may emphasize asceticism, breath control, and austere self-discipline as the primary means to Moksha.

If you’d like, I can tailor this outline to a specific Jain sutra or stotra you’re studying (for example, a line from a particular text) and explain the exact wording and interpretation in both Digambara and Śvetāmbara contexts.