Study of Tattvarthasutra with Bhasya

SR No.: 001578
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Suzuko Ohira
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1982
Total Pages: 196
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Tattvartha Sutra, Philosophy, Tattvartha Sutra, & Tattvarth
File Size: 13 MB

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Sec. 4. HISTORICAL POSITION OF THE T. S.
Instead of seven tattvas, nine tattvas are expounded in verse 189 onwards in the Prasamarati, thereby it adds the topic of a promise for laymen to attain svarga loka in reward of their good conduct in this life (verses 302-308). Also the process of kevali samudghāta up to sūkşmakriyā dhyāna which is not explained in the T. S. is described (verses 273-82). Certain minor improvments are also made on the T. S., for instance, the sthāvaras are counted here as of five kinds (verses 190-192 against T. S. II:13-14) and samyaktva, jñāna, caritra, virya and śikṣā are enumerated to be the jīva laksaņas (verse 218 against T. S. V:21). The Prasamarati 3-4 read, 'yadyapy-ananta-gama-paryayārtha-hetu-naya-sabda-ratnādhyam/ sarvajña-śāsana-puram pravestum-abahusrutair-duḥkham//śruta-buddhi-vibhava-parihinakas-tathā'py-aham-asaktim-avcintya/dramaka ivävayavonchakam-anvestum tat-pravesepsuh', which echo the s. kārikā 23–26 expressing a difficulty in epitomizing the canon. The Prasamarati is doubtlessly a post - T. S. product, for it quotes the concept like satsāmānya which was formulated in the particular context in composing the T. S.
The Jambūdvipasamāsa is a systematic treatise on Jambūdvipa, of which first two abnikas describe the geography of Jambūdvipa, the third explains the world oceans and continents, and the fourth discusses about mensuration formulae and recapitulates the characteristic features of Jambūdvipa. The Digambara edition of the T. S. revised its third chapter largely based on this work, probably with a view to attaining the validity of revision based on the original author's text. The names of antatradvipas listed in the T. S. III:15Bh. are identical with those in the third ahoika, 98 which so far do not exactly coincide with the other lists, either Āgamic or non-Agamic. These speak in support of the traditional belief that the Jambūdvipisamisa was composed by Umāsvāti. In its 4th ahnika and the T. S. III: 11 Bn. imparted are the mensuration formulae to find out the chord, arrow of an arc, arc, and diameter in a segment of a circle, which are all identical in both texts excluding the method of measuring the arrow of an arc (the 4th series below) as follows:
AC = arc = a AC = chord = c BD = height or a row = h EA = EC = ED = d/2
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