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## Introduction
It appears necessary to consult. The three arguments they presented on this subject, we have already referred to on page 62. The first argument is the eulogy found at the end of the 22nd Karika of the Uttanika and the Tattvarthabhashya. Of these two places, the Uttanika Karika promises to speak of a short treatise called Tattvarthadhigam, and in the final eulogy, the commentator Umashvati says that he composed the Tattvarthadhigam Shastra. Based on this, the scholar wants to prove that the author of the Tattvarthsutra is the commentator Umashvati. But we have already proven and explained this earlier (on page 17) that the name Tattvarthadhigam does not belong to the Tattvarthsutra but to the Tattvarthabhashya. Umashvati himself does not call the Tattvarthadhigam a Sutra but addresses it as a Granth or Shastra, and further, while explaining the purpose of composing the Tattvarthadhigam, he says in the 22nd Uttanika Karika that it is difficult to understand the ocean of words, the inaccessible Granthabhashya. It is not hidden from historians that the commentaries on the Agam texts mentioned here by Umashvati were composed in the 7th century Vikram. While even before these, many commentaries like Sarvarth Siddhi were written on the Tattvarthsutra. In such a situation, it makes no sense to prove Umashvati as the author of the original Tattvarthsutra based on the 21st Uttanika Karika and the final eulogy.
The scholar's second argument states that the study of the Tattvarthabhashya suggests that there is no contradiction in interpreting the Sutra in the Tattvarthabhashya, etc. Here, the point is to consider whether the Tattvarthabhashya is in the state as the scholar proclaims or not. From this perspective, we have also studied the Tattvarthabhashya, but we find many places in it that make the situation of the Tattvarthabhashya questionable from this perspective. For example:
1. In the Tattvarthsutra, Samyagdarshani and Samyagdristi are not considered different. There, in Chapter 7 Sutra 23, even someone who has Samyagdarshan is called Samyagdristi, who is susceptible to doubts and other defects. But contrary to this, in the Tattvarthabhashya, independent explanations of both Samyagdarshani and Samyagdristi are given, making them different from each other. It is said there that one who has Abhinibodhik knowledge is called Samyagdarshani, and one who has Kevalgyan is called Samyagdristi. It is clear that here, the commentator of the Tattvarthabhashya does not follow the Tattvarthsutra and presents his two interpretations of the term Samyagdristi, contrary to the Tattvarthsutra. In one place (Chapter 1 Sutra 8), he accepts something, and in another (Chapter 7 Sutra 23), he abandons it.
2. In the Tattvarthsutra, Mati, Smriti, and Sanjna, etc., are synonymous names for Matijnana. But the commentator of the Tattvarthabhashya, instead of considering them synonymous names, considers Matijnana, Smritijnana, etc., as independent knowledge based on the Sutra "Matih Smritih" etc. Siddhasena Divakara also explained them as independent knowledge based on the Tattvarthabhashya. To say that general Matijnana is comprehensive and special Matijnana, Smritijnana, etc., are its objects, does not seem logical, because Matijnana deals with the present meaning. When the commentator himself accepts this fact, in such a situation, Mati, Smriti, etc., can only be synonymous names for Matijnana, not different knowledge. And in the Agamas of the Digambara and Svetambara traditions, they are considered synonymous with Matijnana.
1. See Uttanika Karika 21 and the final eulogy of the Tattvarthabhashya. 2. Mahato'timahaviṣayasya durgamagranthabhāṣyapārasya. Kaḥ śakto pratyāsaṁ jinavacanamahaudadheḥ kartum. 3. See the introduction of the Tattvarthsutra by Pandit Kailashchandraji, page 121. 4. See the Tattvarthabhashya of Chapter 1 Sutra 8. 5. See the Tattvarthabhashya of Chapter 1 Sutra 13.