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
been acquainted with the έvetambara reading and in his eyes this reading would have possessed merit too; for otherwise he would not have composed a Tippana that was in line with the Śvetämbara tradition. Even then if he adopted the Digambara reading of aphorisms the reason must be that he wanted to impress upon the partisans of Digambara tenets that it was quite possible and tenable to give an explanation exactly in line with the Svetambara tradition to that very reading of aphorisms on the basis of which the Digambara scholars had been, for one thousand years, offering an explanation that was in line with the Digambara tradition' and opposed to the Śvetāmbara Āgāmas. At the same time he wanted to say to the Śvetāmbara students, "Whether you adopt the Digambara reading of aphorisms or its Śvetambara counterpart the meaning yielded in spite of this difference of reading is the same and one in line with the Śvetāmbara tradition. So there is no necessity to get excited against the Digambara reading of aphorisms and to throw it aside as something belonging to the rival camp. Whether you learn the reading of aphorisms accepted by the bhasya or you commit to memory that accepted by Sarvārthasiddhi, the essential thing is the same in both cases." Thus on the one hand with a view to telling the Digambara scholars as to what true meaning is simply yielded by their own reading of aphorisms and on the other hand with a view to teaching the Śvetāmbara students that goaded by a partisan spirit they should not get excited against the Digambara reading of aphorisms this Yasovijaya seems to have composed his Tippana discarding the Svetambara reading of aphorisms and accepting its Digambara counterpart.
(j) Pujyapāda
Pujyapāda's real name is Devanandin. He flourished in 5th6th centuries A. V. He has composed works on numerous topics like grammar etc. of which some are available. The information
1. See Sarvārthasiddhi, 2.53; 9.11; 109.
2. See Jaina Sahitya Samsodhaka, Part I, p. 83.
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