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**Sarvarthasiddhi**
is. Also, in the commentary of the 42nd Sutra, Dharma, Adharma, Akash and Jiva's parinaama are said to be anaadi. On this, in the Tattvarthavartika, an objection is raised, saying...-'Atranye Dharmaadharmakalaakashaeshv anaavi: parinaama: maavimaan jeevapudgaleshu vadanti tavayuktam.'
That is, other people say that parinaama in Dharma, Adharma, Kaal and Akash is anaadi, and in Jiva and Pudgal they say it is saadi, but their saying so is inappropriate.
Similarly, from the Tattvarthavartika of Chapter 1 Sutra 15 and 21; Chapter 2 Sutra 7, 20 and 333; Chapter 4 Sutra 8; Chapter 5 Sutra 2-3, Chapter 6 Sutra 18 and Chapter 8 Sutra 6, it is also known that the Tattvarthabhashya was definitely in front of Akalankdev.
Although there is some difference of opinion in this matter. Dr. Jagdishchandraji wrote an article in this regard in Anekant Varsh 3 Kiran 4, in which he explained that the Tattvarthabhashya of Umaswati was present in front of Akalankdev. But Pandit Jugulkishoreji Mukhtar does not accept this opinion. Pandit Kailashchandraji Shastri also has the same opinion.
We believe that there is no clear evidence to support the fact that the Sutra text accepted by the reader Umaswati in the Tattvarthabhashya was present before the writing of the Tattvarthabhashya. The difference of opinion regarding the Sutra text, which Acharya Pujyapad and Siddhasenagani have discussed in their commentaries, is also not related to the Tattvarthabhashya accepted Sutra text. In such a situation, it seems weak to us to believe that the Tattvarthabhashya of the reader Umaswati was not in front of Bhatta Akalankdev. By observing all the commentaries of Digambar and Shwetambar written on the Tattvarth Sutra, we can only be sure that the great Acharya who composed the Tattvarth Sutra did not write any commentary or Vritti text on the Tattvarth Sutra. The various differences of opinion regarding the Sutra subject that appear in the Tattvarth Sutra in later times are evidence of this. It is clear that until the time of Acharya Pujyapad, these differences of opinion were very few. But on the other hand, the acceptance of the original Sutra text by the Digambar tradition through Sarvarthasiddhi led to a strong reaction and the original Sutra text was abandoned. As a result, not only did the differences of opinion regarding the nature of the Sutra text start increasing, but also the feeling of establishing an independent Sutra text arose. Based on all these events and facts, our opinion is that the reader Umaswati himself would have given the final form to the Sutra text accepted by his Tattvarthabhashya, and so that this difference of opinion regarding the text would not take an aggressive form, he himself would have written his famous Tattvarthadhigamabhashya on it. It is true that before the reader Umaswati, other Shwetambar Acharyas had cut and trimmed the original Tattvarth Sutra, and the reader Umaswati inherited it. If Pandit Jugulkishoreji Mukhtar proposes this opinion keeping this intention in mind that the Sutra text accepted by the Tattvarthabhashya was also present before the reader Umaswati, then this statement may be possible to some extent, but it does not affect the opinion that the Tattvarthabhashya was present in front of the Tattvarthavatikakar, because the Tattvarthavatik does not only mention the differences of opinion regarding the Sutra text accepted by the Tattvarthabhashya, but also mentions some opinions that are directly related to the Tattvarthabhashya.
Thus, even if we accept that the Tattvarthabhashya was written before the Tattvarthavatik, in the light of these evidences, it becomes a matter of consideration when it was written. We have many perspectives on this.
1. See Anekant Varsh 3 Kiran 4, 11 and 121 2. See Pandit Kailashchandraji's Tattvarth Sutra Preface page 9 etc. 3. See Sarvarth Siddhi A. 1 S. 16 and A. 2 S. 53 and Siddhasen's commentary A. 1 S. and A. 5 S. 3 etc. 4. See the section 'Difference of opinion in Sutra texts' in the current preface.