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DHAKY : UMĀSVĀTI IN EPIGRAPHICAL AND LITERARY TRADITION
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abhūd Umāsvāti muniśvaro asāv ācārya sabdõttara Gęddhrapiñchaḥ | tad anvayē tat sadrso (a)sti nānyastātkālik asēşa padārtha-vēdi 115 ||
The verse, moreover, states that Umāsvāti belonged to the spiritual lineage of (ācārya) Kondakunda.. The inscription of 1398 A.D. (which is from Vindhyagiri), however, has a different verse which, moreover, specifically attributes the composition of the Tattvārtha-sūtra to Umāsvāti (not done in the afore-cited verse) and looks upon Gțddhrapiñccha not as Umāsvāti's alias but as his disciple's name:
śrīmān Umāsvātir ayam yatīsas Tattvārtha-sūtram prakațicakāra | yan muktimārgācarano dyatānām pāthéyamarghyam
bhavati prajānām || tasyaiva śişyo (a)jani Gệddhrapiñchadvitiyasamjñasya
Baläkapiñcchah ||
And the inscription of 1409 A.D., also from Vindhyagiri, is the second in order to state that Umāsvāti composed the Tattvārtha-sūtra, its other assertions are in essence identical with those noticed in the former five Chandragiri inscriptions :
tadīyam vamšākarataḥ prasiddhād abhūd adāsā yatiratnamālā | babhau yadantar manivaḥ munindraḥ sa Kundakundõdita
canda-dandaḥ || abhūd Umāsvāti-muniḥ pavitrē vamśē tadiyē sakal ārthavēdī i sūtriksitam yēna jina-pranītam śāstrartha-jātam munipungavēna || sa prāņi-samraksana-savadhano babhāra yõgi kila griddhapakşān! tadā prabhsity ēva budhā yamāhur ācārya-sabdo ttara
Gțddhapiñccham II tasmād abhūd yogi-kula-pradipõ Balākapiñcchaḥ sa tapo
maharddhih!
(Incidentally, an inscription of 1154 A.D. Yelladahalli enlists Grddhrapiñcchācārya after Samantabhadra and Akalanka, the two other notable luminaries of the Southern Church (Vijayamurti 1957: 62, Ins. 324). There is, however, no mentioning there of Umāsvāti or the Tattvārtha-sūtra).
The eighth inscription is from the surroundings of the famous Padmāvati temple at Humcha (Vijayamurti 1957: 518, Ins. 667). It
6. There is a difference in the interpretation of the verse : some feel that
what is implied here is that Umāsvāti is Kundakunda himself (Gopal 1973, p. lxxvi ff.).
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