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
stands on the question of conduct. This scriptural mass aimed at buttresing party-stands on the questions of conduct ultimately gave rise to a difference of opinion as to the old common Angic scripture itself, a difference which originally consisted in merely offering an alternative interpretation but which culminated in surmising an alternative reading, an interpolation and the like. Thus the difference of opinion that had produced difference on the questions of conduct also produced difference in the hitherto common understanding maintained by the two parties as to the common Angic scripture. As a result, one of the parties began to hold—and make others hold—that the common original Angic scripture had veritably disappeared to a very great extent while what had remained of it was not free from artificialities and later interpolations. However, even while saying all this the party did not altogether renounce the original Angic scripture; at the same time it began to specially compose the scriptural texts that would lend support to its own code of conduct and through them to propagate its partisan views. The other party on its part noticed that the first one complained that the artificialities had gained entrance into the original Angic scripture but that it neither renounced this scripture altogether nor joined in the task of safeguarding it. Noticing all this it held a gathering at Mathurā.' Here finalization of the textual reading, classification, contractions, expansion etc. were undertaken in relation to the original Angic scripture as also in relation to the Anga-bāhya scripture acceptable to the party in question, a performance remaining on the whole authoritative in the eyes of the elders who took part in that gathering. Even if this edition of the Angic-cum-Anangic Scripture was rather new and inspite of drawing a dividing line between Angic and Anangic texts it contained in the Angic-texts insertions from and references to the Anangic texts — a state of affairs
1. Some time in between 827 and 840 A. M. See Viranirvana Saṁvat Aur Jaina Kālagananā, p. 104
2. For example, Bhagavati refers to Anuyogadvāra, Prajñāpanā, Jambūdvīpaprajñapti, Jīvābhigamasūtra and Rājaprasnīya. See Bhagavati part, IV, Parisista.