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Siddhasena and his Works
the Anekānta is significant. Though differing from Siddhasena thus, he quotes a Gāthā of his respectfully.
Sumatideva flourished possibly earlier than Akalanka; and Vādirāja (Pārsvanāthacarita I. 22) remembers him as Sanmati, the commentator on the Sanmati which must be the same work as that of Siddhasena. Sāntarakṣita, in his Tattvasamgraha, reviews the views of a Digambara author Sumati, possibly this very commentator. According to a S. -Belgol inscription, Sumatideva was the author of the Sumati-saptaka. The Sanmati was respected as an Agama; but with the disappearance of Sumati's comm. and after Abhayadeva wrote his commentary on it, it came to be looked upon as a work of Svetāmbara tradition. A line from one of the Dvā.s is quoted in the Sarvārthasiddhi VII. 13) by Pūjyapāda; this is quoted by Akalanka and Virasena (Jayadhavalā 1, p. 108) fully. Further Akalanka (Tattvārthavā. VIII. 1) quotes another verse 1.30. The Nyāyāvatāra has not got recognition among the Digambaras. Thus Siddhasena and his Sanmati have been respected in the Digambara-Paramparā.
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