Jain Journal 2003 10

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

Page 29

DR. M. JALENDIRAN: ĀCĀRYA PUJYAPĀDA AND HIS WORKS
knowledge is composed of less number of letters in Sanskrit) than faith (daršuna in Sanskrit). This contention is untenable.
Faith and knowledge arise in the soul simultaneously. For instance, when the cloud disappears, both the heat and the light of the same are manifested simultaneously. Similarly, when right faith attained by soul owing to the subsidence cum destruction or destruction cum subsidence of faith deluding karma right sensory knowlegde and right spiritual knowledge are attained by the soul at the same time by the removal of wrong sensory and wrong spiritual knowledge.
There is a controversy about the authorship of mangalā caraṇa sloka of Sarvārthasiddhi. The śloka is given below:
mokṣa mārgusya netāram bhēttāraḥ karma-bhūbhrtāṁ jñātāram visvatattvānām vande tadguņa-labdhaya"
Depending on the statement made by Ācārya Vidyānanda some of the scholars said: “the above mangalasloka is Tattvārthasūtra mangalasloka by Ācārya Griddhapriccha'
Pandit Siddhāntācārya Poolchandra Sāstri has denied the above mentioned fact of Ācārya Vidyānanda.
In supporting of his view, Pandit Siddhāntācārya Phoolchandra Sāstri mentioned if the above mentioned mangalācarana śloka was composed by Ācārya Griddhapriccha in his work Tattvārthasūtra, definitely Acārya Pūjyapāda would have commented on it.
In the same way Akalanka in his Rājavārtika, Ācārya Vidyānanda in his 'Slokavārtika' have not written any commentary on the above mentioned mangalasloka. They have directly started their commentary from the first sūtra of Tattvārthasūtra-'samyagdarśana-jñana-caritrāni mokşamārgah'.
If the same work is to be the mangala śloka, argues Pandit Phoolchandra Sāstri, the Ācārya mentioned above have written a commentary on the above mentioned maigalācarana sūtras. Therefore, Pandit Phool chandra Sāstri opines that the above mentioned mangala śloka is not original to the Tattvārthasūtra. It is mangalaśloka of “Sarvārthasiddhi” composed by Ācārya Pūjyapāda. The above mentioned particulars are the evidences to prove the elegance and lucidity of Ācārya Pūjyapāda.