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undoubtedly the work of the famous Siddhasena Divā. kara, the disciple of Vụddhavādi.
(c) On the one hand, the well-known Ācārya of the Digambaras, the Stutikāra Swāmi Samantabhadra, is regarded as being the same as Gandhahasti and the Bhāşya which he had written on the Tattwārta is known by the name of Gandhahasti Mahābhaşhya. A tradition to this effect continues even to-day in the Digambara sect. On the other hand in the Śwetāmbara sect the tradition that Divā kara the disciple of VỊddhavādi was otherwise named Gandbahasti and that he had written a commentary on Tattwārtha is current even to-day. Out of these two traditions the first is proved to be positively wrong by Pandit Jugalkishora in his book on Swāmi Samantabhadra, and the falsity of the second tradition has been conclusively proved by us with sound arguments in the introduction of Tattwärtha published on behalf of the Gujrāta Vidyāpītha. We, however, deem it proper to repeat the arguments advanced in our introduction there. This Gandhahasti, we mention, is not that Siddhasena Divākara the disciple of VỊddhavādi, but is another Siddhasena the disciple of Bhāswāmi who in his turn was the disciple of Simhasūra and this Siddhasena Gandhahasti wrote a commentary on the Tattwärtha Bhâsya. The following are the proofs in brief to prove our point :
1. In no work on the life of Divā kara, whether ancient or modern, the epithet Gandhahasti has been used
1 S.S. B, p. 214 to 220 2 p. 36 to 44 and notes thereon..
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