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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INTRODUCTION
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Similarly, the mannerism of employing the word ‘anarthāntara' instead of paryāya' (both meaning synonym) is found in Tattvārtha 1.13. just as it is found in Patañjali's Mahābhāsya and Nyāyadarśana (1.1.15).
The views and words characteristic of the branches of Buddhist philosophy like Sūnyavāda, Vijñānavada etc. are not found in Tattvārthabhāsya as they are found in Sarvārthasiddhi; even so, certain common views of Buddhist philosophy are here referred to at one or two places in the form of views upheld by an alien system. Whether these views have been borrowed from the Pāli-pitaka or from the Mahāyāna Sanskrit Pitaka or from some other text with the same topic—that is worth considering. Of such views the first mention has been made while giving out what according to the Jainas is the number of Naraka-bhūmis and in this connection rejecting the corresponding number suggested by the Buddhists; we thus read
"api ca tantrāntarīyā asamkhyeyeșu lokadhātusvasankhyeyāḥ prthivīprastārā ity adhyavasitāḥ.”
-Tattvārthabhāsya. 3, 1. And the second mention has been made while giving out what according to the Jainas' is the definition of pudgala and in this connection rejecting the meaning attributed to the word ‘Pudgala' by the Buddhists; we thus read : pudgalān iti ca tantrāntarīyā jīvān paribhāṣānte.
-Introductory bhāsya to 5. 23.2
1. See Mahābhāsya on 1.1.56; 2.3.1 and 5.1.59.
2. Though in the Jaina Agama (Bhagavati 8.3 and 20.2) the word 'pudgala' has also been used as meaning jīva (=living being), yet in the technical terminology of Jaina philosophy it is current only as meaning the inanimate atoms and the aggregates made thereof; On the other hand, in the technical terminology of Buddhist philosophy this word is current only as meaning jīva. It is keeping this difference view in mind that the Vācaka here speaks of tantrāntariya (=one upholding an alien system).