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APPENDIX
Certain questions related to Umāsvāti and Tattvartha I had placed before Pt. Nathuramji Premi and Pt. Jugalkishoreji Mukhtar. The main part of the answers that I have received from them I am giving below in their own language'-this along with my own questions. Both these dignitaries are historical-minded among the present-day Digambara scholars and their competence regarding historical matters is of a high grade. So in view of the usefulness of their ideas for a specialist student they are being presented here in the form of an Appendix. What I myself have to say about a certain portion of Pt. Jugalkishoreji's answer I say below under the title 'My Own Understanding' immediately after having presented forth this answer itself :
(a) Questions
(1) Umāsvāti was a direct disciple-or a later descendant of Kundakunda-a mention to this effect you have so far come across in which oldest text, paṭṭāvalī, rock-inscription etc. ? To put it in other words, which text, paṭṭāvalī etc. earlier than the 10th century has been so far found to mention Umāsvāti as a direct disciple-or a later descendant-of Kundakunda ?
(2) What according to you is the date of Pujyapāda? The Śvetāmbara bhāṣya on Tattvārtha-is it or is it not, according to you, a composition of the aphorist himself? If it is not, what are your important arguments in support of a view like that?
(3) Has there ever been in the Digambara sect a branch
1. Original letters are in Hindi language.
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