Tattvarthadhigamsutram Part 2

SR No.: 002716
Original Sutra Author: Umaswati, Umaswami
Author: Hiralal R Kapadia
Publisher: Jivanchandra Sakarchandra
Publication Year: 1929
Total Pages: 472
Language: Hindi, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari, Philosophy, Tattvartha Sutra, Tattvartha Sutra, & Tattvarth
File Size: 12 MB

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INTRODUCTION We have briefly outlined the life of our venerable and prolific author in the introduction to the first part (p. 7) of this work; but, as some issues have arisen in the meanwhile, we shall commence this introduction by examining his parentage and gotra (lineage).
Generally speaking, there are two kinds of genealogy namely (1) janma-vamsa and (2) vidyā-varśa. The former refers to the line of ancestors, while the latter to that of preceptors. Both of these seem to have been current in India from a very remote period, even before the time of Sri Panini, the great grammarian; for, there is a side-reference to these in his Aşțādhyāyi (4-3-77). Furthermore, the second type of genealogy is twofold due to the duplicate nature of a guru. He may be
-guru, that is to say, one who initiates an individual and admits him as a member of the holy order of ascetics or a vidyā-guru meaning one who imparts spiritual knowledge to such an individual.
In the case of our venerable author Umāsvāti, the colophon (praśasti) given at the end of the bhāsya supplies us with information on all these points. For, from the third verse we learn that the name of his father is Svāti, that of his lineage Kaubhīşana, and his mother's "Vatsa, her
being Umā. The latter fact is of course based upon the interpreta tion of the learned commentator Śrī Siddhasena Gani. As his is the oldest record available at present in this connection we need not doubt its vera
1 Parentage
Svāti Umā (Kaubhisanin) (Vātsi)
Umāsvāti 2 "gamla
" i. e. to say "the affixat comes, in the sense of 'thence come' after a word denoting a person connected through the relationship of learning or family origin."-Eng. trans. by Srisa Chandra Vasu, B. A. 3" Fulfat Pagdar faecat grat'HTETI
tortafor’at Farfaita 'arreftgaares 11 20" 4 References to this gotra are found in "History of Mediæval Hindu India" (vol. II, pp. 50-51 ) by C. V. Vaidya, M.A., LL.B.
In connection with the antiquity of this gotra may be mentioned the following lines from "Vedic Index of names and subjects" (vol. II, p. 284) by Prof. Macdonell and Dr. Keith:
" "Võtsi-putra, son of a female descendant of Vatsa', as the name of a teacher mentioned in the last Vamsa (list of teachers) of the Bfhadaranyaka Upanişad, as a pupil of Pārāśarīputra according to the Kāņva recension (VI, 5, 2), as a pupil of Bhāradvajiputrā according to the Madhyamdina (VI, 4, 31).