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2. Until now, only the present Yasovijaya has written in Gujarati about the Tattvarthasutra; because apart from him, there is no known work in Gujarati on the Tattvarthasutra by anyone else. It is definitively known that Yasovijaya is Svetambara, as mentioned at the end of the text, and another strong evidence is his own text. The variation in the reading of the sutras and the number of sutras accepted by the Digambara indicates that he has not favored the Digambara tradition at any point. However, a question arises here: why, despite being Svetambara, did Yasovijaya adopt the Digambara reading of the sutras? Is it possible that he was not familiar with the Svetambara text? Or, even if he was familiar, did he find more significance in the Digambara reading? The most reasonable answer is that he was certainly acquainted with the Svetambara reading, and in his view, that text was... 1. "Thus, the Svetambara Acharya Shri Umaswami (Nika) has authored the Tattvarthasutra, and it is to be acknowledged: Yasovijaya, revered by Shri Kanti Vijayji in his collection of scriptures." 2. This acceptance also has exceptions that are very nuanced. For instance, he did not take the 19th sutra of A0 4 from the Digambara reading. Since the Digambara considers the Devapadma as heaven, the reading derived from them cannot remain Svetambara, hence he has taken the sutra naming the twelve heavenly beings from the Svetambara reading at that place.