Jain Journal 1999 04

SR No.: 520134
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication
Publication Year: 1999
Total Pages: 58
Language: English
Classification: Magazine, India_Jain Journal, & India
File Size: 3 MB

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JAIN JOURNAL : Vol-XXXIII, No. 4 April 1999
are treated in these Sūtras and in the Commentary appended by the author himself, in the closest possible agreement with the Canon, more especially with Anga VI and Pūrva II. Even to-day it may still serve as an excellent summary of Jaina dogmatics. It is true that the Commentary, which expresses views that are not in harmony with those of the Digambaras, is not recognised by this sect as the work of Umāsvāmin. It is doubtful, therefore, whether the Digambaras are justified in claiming him as one of their own. He probably belongs to a period at which there was not yet so wide a gulf between the two sects as was the case later. The large number of commentaries which have been written on this work by both Śvetāmbaras and Digambaras, bear witness to its significance and great popularity; these include commentaries by such notable teachers as Siddhasena Divākara, Samantabhadra and Haribhadra. The last-named also wrote a commentary on Srāvakaprajñapti, 5 a systematic treatise of the Jaina religion for lay adherents, in Prākrit. Praśamarati-Prakarana, 6 Treatise on the Joys of Peace of the Soul," is a religious-philosophical work, also possessing literary merit.
Siddhasena Divākara wrote a commentary on the Tattvārthādhigamasutra 7
A commentary, entitled Sarvārthasiddhi was also written by Pujyapāda Devanandin.
In the first half of the 8th cent A.D. the Digambara Samantabhadra wrote a commentary on Umāsvāti's Tattvärthadhigama-sūtra. The introduction to this commentary is entitled Devāgama-stotra or Aptamimāmsāo in which the Jainistic philosophy of Syādvāda is explained.
5. Ed. by B.K. Premchand (Mody), Bombay 1905. 6. Edited in the Appendix to the Edition of Tattvārthādhigama, Bibl. Ind.;
also in Amadavada, Samvat 1960; with Tikā and Avacūri, Bhavnagar, Samvat 1966; edited with commentary and translated into Italian by A. Ballini in GSAI, 25, 1912, 117 ff.; 29, 1918-20, 61 ff. Tattvānusārini Tattvārthaţikā was printed in Ahmedabad. Siddhasena Ganin, who also wrote a Tattvārthaţikā, quotes Siddhasena Diväkara. Cf. Peterson, 3 Reports, Extracts p. 83ff; Hiralal, Catalogue, p. xiiff. Distinct from these two is Siddhasena Sūri, who in 1185 A.D. wrote a commentary on Nemicandra's Pravacanasāroddhāra; Cf. Weber HSS, Verz. II, 3, 850;
Peterson, Report TV, p. cxxxff. 8. Edited in Kolhapur 1904, s. Jacobi in ZDMG 60, 290. 9. Edition in Jaina Grantha Ratnākara and in SJG Vol-1, Bombay 1905; in
SJG 10, Benares 1914, and in DJGK I. on the contents of the work, cf. Vidyābhūşaņa, I.c. p. 184f.