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- 24 - Moreover, there is respect for the word "nagnya" found in the sutras (9.9). The commentary indicates in an external manner that the scripture referred to has not been included in the Sarvārthasiddhi, as Dashāshrutaskandha, Kalpa, and Vyavahāra are not in line with the ached principle. It is clearly supportive of the sachel principle, but Sarvārthasiddhi mentions Dashavaikalika and Uttarādhyayana, which, although not definitively attributed to any acharya of the ached principle, are not explicitly contradictory to it.
The attractiveness of the original sutras of Umāsvāti and the mere exclusion of commentary led Pujyapad to write such an exposition on those sutras that evidently upholds ached dharma while clearly rejecting sachel dharma. Not only this, but Pujyapad Swami has also explicitly indicated the non-authenticity of the eleventh limb and the externally referenced scripture that is the current form of the Valabhi writing. He stated that considering the kevalin as kavalāhārī and labeling a person who consumes meat, etc., gradually leads to kevalin-avarṇavāda and śrut-avarṇavāda.
The situation appears that after the creation of Pujyapad's Sarvārthasiddhi, which primarily presents an explicit exposition of the ached dharma, the total exclusion of the scripture reliant on the sachel side that the specific ached side implemented was a strong and unilateral exclusion that had not occurred before the composition of the Sarvārthasiddhi. This is the reason that after the creation of Sarvārthasiddhi, the entry of sachel scripture into the ached side has been minimal, as is evident from the scriptural tendencies of later Digambara scholars. In this situation, there are exceptions that are negligible. In fact, around Pujyapad, there was a significant tug-of-war and opposition between the ached and sachel principles.
1. Considering the texts related to meat in the Bhagavatī Sūtra (Shataka 15), Āchārāṅga (with Sholāṅkṭikā, pp. 334, 335, 348, 352, 364), and Praśnavyākaraṇa (pp. 148, 150), Sarvārthasiddhikara stated that accepting such matters in the Agama is considered śrut-avarṇavāda. Focusing on the kevalin's food descriptions in Bhagavatī (Shataka 15) and others, he stated that this is the avarṇavāda of the kevalin.
2. Acalanka and Vidyananda were familiar with the texts of Siddhasena, as seen in Rajavārtika, 8.1.17 and Ślokavārtika, p. 3.