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
10th centuries—in his commentary on Ācārāngasūtra ought to be a work of Siddhasena, the author of the commentary on Tattvārthabhāsya; for it is impossible that śīlānka and Abhayadeva who had flourished at so close an interval should apply the adjective gandhahastin to two different masters. And it is difficlt to suppose that a highly learned scholar like Abhayadeva did not come across the commentary on Ācārāngasūtra—the foremost among the Āgamic texts-composed by śīlāńka who had flourished only a little earlier than himself. Moreover, when Sīlāňka himself in the course of his commentaries quotes gāthās from Siddhasena Divākara's Sanmati he nowhere employs the term gandhahastin; hence the person understood by Sīlānka to be gandhahastin is not Divākara—this much is clear. The conclusion here reached on the basis of the above mode of argumentation now stands fully corroborated by a reference made by Yaśobhadrasūri's disciple who had completed the incomplete commentary of Haribhadra. Thus he says;
sūriyaśobhadrasya [hi] śisyena samuddhrtā svabodhārtham / tattvārthasya hi tīkā jadakāyarjanoddhrtāntyārdhā //1// haribhadrācāryeņārabdhā vivstārdhasadadhyāyāmś ca / pūjyaiḥ punar uddhrteyam tattvārthārddhasya tīkāntyā //2//
iti "etad uktam bhavati-haribhadrācāryeņārdhasannām adhyāyānāmādyānāṁ tīkā krtā, bhagavatā tu gandhahastinā siddhasena navyā krtā tattvārthatīkā navyair vādasthānair vyākulā, tasyā eva seșaṁ uddhstaṁ cācāryeņa (sesam mayā) svabodhārtham sā’tyantagurvī ca dupdupikā nispannety alam prasangena", p. 521.
(c) Siddhasena
At present two commentaries on Tattvārthabhāsya composed by Śvetāmbara masters are available in their entirety. Of these one is comparatively bigger, the other comparatively smaller. It is Siddhasena, the author of this bigger commentary,
1. See Gujarati Tattvārthavivecana, Paricaya, p. 36.
2. This reading has been corrected with the help of another manuscript.-see Ātmānandaprakāśa, 45. 10., p. 193.