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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work of Haribhadra alone, but three masters at least have taken part in its composition. Of these Haribhadra too is one and it is this Haribhadra who is under consideration here. In the Śvetāmbara sect there have been numerous masters of the name Haribhadra? of whom one famous under the title Yakinīsūnu (= the son of the Yākinī) and the author of hundreds of works is supposed to be the author of the present small commentary. E no evidence free of doubt is yet at hand on this score. Muni-shri Jambuvijayaji has compared with one another the commentaries of Haribhadra and Siddhasena and has maintained that Haribhadra has followed the commentary of Siddhasena.? If that be so then Haribhadra's commentary ought to have been composed after that of Siddhasena.
(e) Devagupta, Yaśobhadra and Yaśobhadra's Disciple
Devagupta has written a commentary only on the Sambadha-kārikās of the Bhāsya. There have been many Ācāryas having the name of Devagupta and in the absence of the name of his preceptor it is difficult to identify him.
The above Haribhadra had composed commentary on five chapters and a half. And commentary on the subsequent chapters of Tattvārthabhāsya seems to have been certainly composed by two persons at least-of whom one is the master named Yaśobhadra and the other his anonymous disciple. This anonymous disciple of Yaśobhadra has composed commentary on the bhāsya pertaining to just the last aphorism of the chapter ten;
1. The commentary can have for its authors even more than three persons. For the names of three of them-viz. Haribhadra, Yaśobhadra and Yaśobhadra's disciple are certain but on the basis of the enclosure supplied to the chapters 8 and 9 an additional author can as well be thought of; thus it says : "iti śrītattvārthatīkāyāṁ haribhadrācāryaprārabdhāyāṁ dupdupikābhidhānāyāṁ tasyām evānyakartykāyām navamo'dhyāyaḥ samāptah”.
2. See the Introduction to Dharmasangrahani by Muni Kalyanavijayaji, pp. 2 ff.
3. See ātmānandaprakāśa, Vol. 45, No. 10, p. 193.