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## Introduction to the Text
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If we take the 'Uttanika' of the text, which is sometimes written at the beginning to explain the relationship of the text's creation, etc., even then there is no obstacle to the aforementioned meaning; rather, it becomes even clearer that the 'Bhashyakar' has been called the 'Shastrakar'; because there is no such Uttanika in the original Tattvarth Sutra, it is either found in the 'Sarvarth Siddhi' after the Mangalacharan or it will be in the Mahabhashya. The author of the Sarvarth Siddhi commentary can also be considered to be the 'Shastrakar' in some way. As for calling the Bhashyakar the Shastrakar, there seems to be no contradiction in this - since the Tattvarth Sutra is the meaning of the Tattvarth Shastra, when its Vartika Bhashya or explanation is also called 'Shastra', then the creators of those Vartika-Bhashya, etc., are themselves proven to be 'Shastrakar', there can be no objection to that.
And if, due to the emergence of the Tattvarth Shastra-like ocean through the Tattvarth Sutra of Umaswati, the word 'Prottan' is considered to be the aforementioned Tattvarth Sutra there, then the 'Tattvarth Shastradbhut Salilnidhi' will not remain its meaning before that, its meaning will not be a particular text but will be generally the Tattvarth Mahodadhi, Dvadashaang Shruta or some Ang-Purva, and then the statements of Ashta Sahasri and Aapta Pariksha will have the same result as was derived above - the necessary result of the creation of Gandhasti Mahabhashya will not be able to be derived from them.
* As is evident from the following statements of Vidyānanda Ācārya in the 'Shloka Vartika':
"Prasiddha cha Tattvarthasyā Shastratvē tadvartikasyā Shastrasvam Siddhamēva tadarthtvāt. .........tadēna tayākyānasyā Shastravam Nivēditam ||"