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## **Sarvarthasiddhi**
1. According to one commentator, 'Nityavasthanianyrupaani' is not one sutra but two. The first is 'Nityavasthanitani' and the second is 'Arupaani'. 'Arupaani' is considered a separate sutra to prove that the four substances, Dharma etc., are formless.
2. According to another commentator, 'Nityavaspitarupaani' is the sutra. According to this, there is no need to give a separate case ending at the end of the word 'Nityavasthanit-'. All three words should be compounded.
3. The third opinion is that the sutra is 'Nityavasthanianyrupaani'. But in this, the word 'nitya' is not independent but an adjective of the word 'avasthita'. According to this opinion, the first word will be 'nityam avasthanitani nityavasthanitani'.
1. Apart from these, two other opinions have been mentioned there. But they are only differences of opinion regarding the meaning, so we have not discussed them separately here.
_ Later on, these differences of opinion increased even further. As evidence, we present here some of the textual variations of the Tattvarthasutra commentary, which were introduced by Shriman Pandit Jugul Kishorji Mukhtar in Anekanta Varsh Tri Kiran Ek. This commentary was sent to Panditji by Shriman Pandit Nathuramji Premi.
By examining this commentary, it is clear that it is the work of a Svetambara Acharya, because it addresses the Digambara Acharyas with words like 'jad', 'duratma' and 'sutravachanachour'. Therefore, the textual variations or additional sutras found in this commentary are quite significant. The additional sutras found in the commentary are:
Taijasam api 50, Dharma vansa shaillanjani arista madhavya madhaviti cha 2, Uchavasaaharvedanoppaatanubhavatasch sadhya: 23, Sa dvividhah 42, Samyaktvam cha 21, Dharmaastikaayaabhavat.
The Tattvarthabhashyakar does not accept these as sutras. Similarly, the main commentators of the Tattvarthabhashya, Haribhadrasuri and Siddhasenagani, also do not consider these as sutras. Nevertheless, the commentator has considered them as sutras. Even if we forget for a while the debate about whether they are sutras or not, the sutra 'Samyaktvam cha' found among them cannot be forgotten under any circumstances. It is not mentioned in the Tattvarthabhashya, nor have other Svetambara Acharyas mentioned it. Yet, the commentator considers it a sutra based on some old source. Not only that, he considers it to be the work of the original sutrakar.
This was the discussion about the differences in the sutras. Now look at one of its textual variations. According to the Digambara tradition, the sutra that describes the seven kshetras in the third chapter does not have the word 'tatra' at the beginning, but the Tattvarthabhashya-accepted version of the said sutra has the word 'tatra' at the beginning. Nevertheless, the commentator here does not accept the Tattvarthabhashya-accepted text but accepts the Digambara tradition-accepted text.
The point to be noted here is that when the Tattvarthasutra and the Tattvarthabhashya were the work of the same person and the Svetambara Acharyas were well aware of this fact, why was there so much difference of opinion regarding the text of the sutras, especially when the Tattvarthabhashya confirms the text accepted by it? We conclude, seeing all this difference of opinion, that before the Tattvarthabhashya-accepted text of the sutras was accepted, there were many attempts, big and small, to establish the Svetambara tradition-accepted text of the sutras, and those attempts continued to be accepted even later. This is why, even after Uma Swami wrote the Tattvarthabhashya and established the text of the sutras, it did not receive the same acceptance that the Sarvarthasiddhi and the text of the sutras accepted by it received in the Digambara tradition.
2. Sarvarthasiddhi 1. The significance of the name - In the available literature, Sarvarthasiddhi is the first commentary written on the Tattvarthasutra.