Tattvartha Sutra

SR No.: 006796
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Sukhlal Sanghavi, K K Dixit
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 2000
Total Pages: 596
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Tattvartha Sutra, & Tattvarth
File Size: 10 MB

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TATTVĀRTHA SŪTRA
recognition and so he was not held in regard by these authors.
The verse "Tattvārthasūtrakartāram grdhrapicchopalaksitam” etc. occurs where and how old it is—this I do not know. It is found in the original manuscripts of Tattvārthasūtra. At places even Kundakunda has been given out as grdhrapiccha; and another master of the name grdhrapiccha too has been found mentioned. Please also get read out the articles on Kundakunda in Jainahitaiṣī, Vol. 10, p 369 and Vol. 15, No. 6.
Please also get read out the Introduction to śațpāhuļa.
Śrutasāgara has completed his commentary on Āsādhara's Mahābhiseka in 1582 A.V. So he belongs to the 16th century A.V. It is he who is the author of a Vrtti on Tattvārtha and a tīkā each on Satpāhuda and Yaśastilaka. I know of no other śrutasāgara.
(c) Mukhtar Jugalkishoreji's Letter
"To your questions a broad answer of some sort I am giving below :
(1) Whatever Digambara pattāvalis—different from the gurvāvalis given in the texts etc.—that have been available so far appear to have been composed later than the 12th century A.V.to say this will be correct. Of these which one is the oldest and when it was composed-about this I cannot say anything just now. In most pattāvalis there is no mention at all of the date of composition etc. and it too is discovered that in some of them the closing portion or some other portion is a later interpolation.
There are so many rock-inscriptions and eulogies speaking of the relationship between Kundakunda and Umāsvāti but they are not all with me at present. However, I do have the collection of Jaina rock-inscriptions from Sravana-belgola—a collection which is the 28th volume of the Manikchand Grathamālā. Here the inscriptions numbering 40, 42, 43, 47, 50, 105 and 108—that is seven of them in all-mention the name of both as also their mutual relationship. Thus the first five employ the phrase 'tadanvaye' and the last the phrase 'vamse tadiye' while