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## Introduction
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Some experience pain for one, some for two, and some for many. It is stated that those who bind seven or eight karmas have fourteen possible parishahs, but they experience pain for only twenty at a time. Those who bind six karmas have fourteen possible parishahs, but they experience pain for only twelve at a time. Those who are vitaraga, chham-sth, and bind one karma also have fourteen possible parishahs, but they experience pain for only twelve at a time. Those who are sayogi jinas, who bind one karma, have eleven possible parishahs, but they experience pain for only nine at a time. And those who are abandhak, ayogi jinas, also have eleven possible parishahs, like the sayogi jinas, but they experience pain for only nine at a time.
Therefore, even here, through a comparative study of the Tattvarth Sutra and the Svetambara Agama literature, we reach the same conclusion that the Tattvarth Sutra author, while establishing the 'Ekadasha Jine' sutra, is closer to the Digambara tradition than the Svetambara tradition.
This is an examination of some sutras of the Tattvarth Sutra, which also helps us to decide that the Tattvarth Sutra author must be different from the commentator Umaswati.
However, there is no ancient mention in the Digambara tradition of any Acharya named Umaswati or Umaswami. The inscriptions of Shravanabelagola or any other evidence that is found is later than the mentions that declare the Tattvarth Sutra to be the work of Acharya Gaddapichchki. Therefore, firstly, their credibility in this matter cannot be trusted. Secondly, Gaddapichchki has been accepted as a name or in the form of an epithet.
## Sirseniya Commentary
Pandit Sukhlalji, in the introduction to his Tattvarth Sutra, has presented one or two mentions from the commentaries of Siddhasena Gani and Haribhadrasuri, trying to prove that the Tattvarth Sutra author and its commentator are the same person. But these mentions are doubtful. For example, in the commentary of Siddhasena Gani, at the end of the seventh chapter, the available pushpika mentions 'Umaswativachkopastrabhaadhye padako panditji bhaashyakar aur sutrakar ek vyakti hain', trying to prove that the commentator and the sutra author are the same person. But the direct meaning of this phrase is - the sutra commentary made by Umaswati Vachka. Here, the phrase 'Umaswativachkopajna' is related to the commentary, not the sutra. The second evidence presented by Panditji is from the Siddhaseniya commentary of the 22nd sutra of the 9th chapter. But this evidence is also doubtful, because the ancient copies of the Siddhasena Gani commentary available have the phrase 'krutatra sutrasanniveshamabhittyoktam' in place of 'swakrut sutrasanniveshamaashrittyoktam'. It is very possible that some scribe, with the intention of showing Umaswati as the commentator of the Tattvarth Sutra, corrected 'krutatra' to 'swakrut' and later this reading became established.
Generally, we have independently examined the Siddhasena Gani commentary, so on this basis, we accept that there are some mentions in it that, in the view of Siddhasena Gani, prove the Tattvarth Sutra and the Tattvarth Bhashya to be the work of the same person. The first mention is from the Siddhaseniya commentary of the sutra 'Ache Paroksham' of the first chapter. Here, Siddhasena Gani, while explaining the part 'vyakhya prajnaptti sha 8. 2', says:
1. Vyakhya Prajnaptti Sha 8. 2.
2. See the introduction of their Tattvarth Sutra, page 17, footnote 1.
3. See Siddhaseniya Commentary, Chapter 9, Sutra 22, page 253, footnote.