Jainism in North India

SR No.: 011067
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Chimanlal J Shah
Publisher: Longmans Green and Compny London
Publication Year: 1932
Total Pages: 66
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 3 MB

Page 291

is further to which Syamarythor of the Prajnapand, the solution JAINISM IN NORTH INDIA many commentaries, two of which go as far back as the ninth century AD. After Dharmadasa ve may mention Umasvati, who is claimed by both the Svetambaras and the Digambaras According to Winternitz, because he represents views which do not correspond with those of the Digambaras, they are scarcely entitled to claim him as one of them with what limitations this fact about Umasvata can be or should be understood we cannot say. However, the learned scholar is night in inferring, with others of his opinion, that probably the great Acarya belongs to an earlier period, when both the sects were not so sharply divided. This is further supported by the Tapagaccha Pattavali of the Jainas, according to which Syamarya, of the fourth century after Vira and, as mentioned before, the author of the Prajnapana, was the pupil of Umasvati. Nevertheless, according to Hiralal," the solution may, however, lie in the fact that Umasvati does not touch the principles under controversy between the two sections." 4 This Umasvati is better known as Vacaka-Sramana According to the Svetambara recension of his Tattvarthadhagama-Sutra 1t seems he was known also as Nagaravacaka We are told by him that he was born in Nyagrodhika, but he resided in Kusumapura or Pataliputra 5 The Hindu philosopher, Madhavacarya, calls him Umasvativacakacarya. As to the writings of this great Acarya, we find that no less than five hundred works are said to have been composed by him, of which, however, only five have survived. The colophon to all of these-Viz (1) Tattvarthadhigama-Sutra; (u) Bhashya on the above; (u) Pugaprakarana; (iv) Jambidvipasamasa; and (v) Prasamarti, as published by the Asiatic Society of Bengal-reads. "ofa: femre IET HET WATER et "? Cf Winternitz, op cit, p 343; Macdonell, India's Past, P 74, Stevenson (Mrs), op al, p 82 : CJ Wintermtz, op cit, p 351, Hiralal (Rai Bahadur), Catalogue of MSS in CP and Berar, Int, pp -, Vidyabhusana, op cit, po Cf Witt, op cil, p 251 This account of the Svetimbar Paftavalt assigns km to centuries before Christ Arya Muhagin, the tenth pontife after Mahavira, dies to Jundred and forty-nine years after the latter He had two pupils, Bahula and Balissaha, The pupil of the Intter 19 Umissati Cf ord, pp 246, 251 In the Digambar account Umistiti s mentioned as the sixth in succession from Bhadrabahu, and as succeeding kunda undiciityn His date of death is gen 142 Of A D 85 Cf Hoemic, IA, , p 391 l'or further information nbout Umastatisce llimlal (Rar Bahadur), op af, Int ,PP JM Peteori, Report on San MISS,1,Int , 51, Jaim, S BJ,1,Int , PP VN + Timbal (Rai Bahindur), op cit, Int ,P I s Talfarthudrama-Sutra (ed Motilal Ladhnji), Adieuyana X, P 203 . cy Corell And Gougli, Serra-Darsana-Samgrala, p65 Hml, op at, Int ,p n 10