Jain Journal 1996 10

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

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DHAKY: UMĀSVĀTI IN EPIGRAPHICAL AND LITERARY TRADITION
the Svētāmbara sect. They likewise differ for some matters and details from those of the Digambara as well, as has been shown by some previous writers (Premi 1956, Ohira 1982). Umāsvāti arguably had before him a version of agamas followed by his own branch, the Uccairnagara-śākha which apparently had differed from the version of the Vajri-sākhā for some details.
Post Script
While completing this paper, I had missed an important article by A.V. Narasimhamurti, namely the "Epigraphical References to Umāsvāti," in Svasti Śri (Dr. B.Ch.Chhabra Felicitation Volume), Delhi, 1984, pp. 57-60. Narasimhamurti, on the authority of P.B. Desai, has noted an inscription of 1098 A.D. in the Jaina basadi at Hunasi Hadagali, which refers to Gṛddhapiñcha but not to Umāsvāti. (Cf. P.B. Desai, Jainism in South India and Jaina Epigraphs, Sholapur 1957, p. 241). Thus, till the very end of the 11th century, Umāsvāti does not figure in the epigraphical tradition of Southern India.
After sending the material to the editors of Śri Nāgābhinandanam volume, I noticed to have missed a reference to a specific mention by the Yapaniya pontiff Palayakirti Šakaṭāyana in his grammar; therein, he refers to the ten (chapters) of Umāsvāti (dasakā Umāsvātijā) and thereby to the Tattvārthadhigama Sūtra. (Cf. Śākaṭāyana-Vyākaraṇa, ed. by Pt. Sambhunatha Tripathi, BJMJG, Skt. series no-39, New Delhi 1944, II, 4; 182). Śākaṭāyana may have been the source from which the composer of the Śravana-Belagola inscription of A.D. 1115 "ot and included this specific information.
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