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## Introduction
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Siddhsen Divakar, a very great Acharya, emerged in the middle of the 5th and 6th centuries Vikram era, after the Dwatrimsatka-Acharya Pujyapada and Swami Samantabhadra. He is mentioned with great respect by the Digambar Acharyas. His work, the Sanmatitarka Granth, is famous. He is also considered to be the author of many Dwatrimsatkas. Acharya Pujyapada, in his commentary on the Sarvarthasiddhi, chapter 7, sutra 13, has quoted the phrase "Vijojayati chasubhih", which seems to be taken from his Siddhdwatrimsatka.
Similarly, some verses, poems, and sentences are quoted in the Sarvarthasiddhi, the source of some of which we have not yet been able to determine accurately, and some are found in texts compiled or composed after the Sarvarthasiddhi. Here, we have introduced only those texts that were definitely in front of Acharya Pujyapada.
**Mangalacharan:** This auspicious verse appears at the beginning of the Sarvarthasiddhi:
"Mokshamargasya netaram bhetaram karmabhubhritam.
Jnataram visvatattvanam vande tadgunalabdhye."
Here, the question is whether this auspicious verse is a part of the Tattvarthasutra or the Sarvarthasiddhi. Most scholars are in favor of considering it a part of the Tattvarthasutra. They present these reasons in its support:
Firstly, most of the ancient handwritten copies of the Tattvarthasutra available have this auspicious verse at the beginning. Secondly, Acharya Vidyānanda, in his Aaptapariksha, has mentioned it as belonging to the Sutrakar. For example:
"Ki punastatparameshtino gunastotram shastrachi sutrakarahaprairiti nigadyate."
Acharya Vidyānanda did not stop there. He concludes the Aaptapariksha by saying:
"Shrimadtattvarthashastraatasalilnisheritratnodbhavasya, proththanarambhakale sakalamalabhiveshastrakaraha kritam yat. Stotram tirthopamanam prathitethapatham swamiimaamsitam tat,
Vidyānanaivaih swashaktā kathamapi kathitam satyavakyārthasiddhye." || 123 ||
At the time of the creation of the wonderful ocean of the Tattvarthasastra, which is the source of excellent gems, the Sutrakar, with the intention of breaking all the karma-mala, composed the stotra, which is like a pilgrimage, and which is famous for its path to liberation. Swami has contemplated on it. Vidyānanda has described it in some way, according to his ability, for the sake of the truth of the words.
He repeated the same thing in these words:
"Iti tattvarthashastraavo munindrastotragocara.
Pranitāptaparikshayam vivadavini vrttaye." || 124 ||
Thus, this Aaptapariksha, which is the subject of the Muni's stotra, is composed at the beginning of the Tattvarthasastra to remove disputes.
These mentions in the Aaptapariksha are unambiguous. They show that Acharya Vidyānanda considers the aforementioned auspicious verse to be the work of the author of the Tattvarthasutra.
1. See Bharatiya Vidya, Part 3, page 11.
2. See Jinsen's Mahapurana.
3. See Puratan Jain Vakyasuchi, Introduction, page 132.