Jain Journal 1996 10

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

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half of the 10th century), 13 in his Tattvārtha-śloka-vārttika, quotes from the Tattvārtha-sūtra as of Gṛdhrapicchācārya (Kailāshchandra 1945, Part 2: 231).14 His contemporary, the famous Kannada poet Pampa, too, in his Adipurāṇa (Kannada, 941 A.D.), mentions Gṛddhrapiñchācārya. 15 And Vadirāja of the Drāviḍa Samgha, in his Pārsvanathacarita (1025 A.D.), offers salutation to 'Gṛddhapiccha' whom Kailashchandra (1945:231) takes as the author of the Tattvartha-sutra.16 Kailashchandra (1945: 232) also notices some Jayasena mentioning 'Gṛddhapicchācārya', but does not specify which one of the two known Jayasēna-s is meant, nor does he state as to the work in which this particular reference occurs and what its date, firm or plausible, had been.
Some of the manuscripts of the southern version of the Tattvarthasūtra contain the following verse which mentions ‘Umāsvāmī' in lieu of 'Umäsväti':
Tattvārtha-sūtra kartāram Gṛddhapicchōpalakṣitam | vandē ganindra-samjātam Umāsvāmi-munisvaram ||
However, as shown by Mukhtar (1956: 106-108), this altered appellation for Umāsvāti for the first time figures in the Tattvärthavṛitti of Śrutasāgara (c. late 15th-early 16th centuries), and Kailashchandra therefore conjectures that Śrutasagara may have based this nomen on a foot of a sloka figuring in the Nitisāra (of Indranandi: late 10 century A.D.) where the author of the Tattvārthasūtra is referred to as 'Svāmï':
Tattvārtha-sūtra-vyākhyātā Svāmīti paripaṭhyatē
(Kailashchandra 1945: 227)
Combining now the Southern literary and the inscriptional
13. My paper "The Epigraphical Evidence on the Date of Vidyananda," is currently in press, to appear in Dr. H.V. Trivedi Felicitation Volume from Bhopal. Therein I have produced full evidence for changing his date to c. 900-950 A.D.
14. etēna Gṛddhrapicchācārya-paryanta muni-sūtrēņa vyabhicāritā nirastā. 15. A.N. Upadhye, in his "Introduction" to the The Varangacarita of JațăSimhanandi, gives the following citation there on p. 15: Āryanuta-Gṛdhrapimchācārya Jaṭācārya viśruta-kirtyā | cārya purassaramapp ācārya parampareyam
kuḍugam bhavyotsavamam | I-12.
16. Verse 16, quoted in Kailashchandra 1945:231. atuccha-guna-sampātam Gṛddhapiccham nato'smi tam | pakṣikurvanti yam bhavyā nirvāṇāyōtpatiṣṇavaḥ ||