Operation In Search of Sanskrit Manuscripts in Mumbai Circle 4

Author(s): P Piterson
Publisher: Royal Asiatic Society

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INDEX OF AUTIONS.
Umasvati -
Author, among many other works, of the Tatt vårtha. See 3, p. 35. Siddhasenagaņi, who wrote a commentary on the work, gives the following information about his author (3, App. p. 83, corrected with the help of a copy of Siddhagena's book bought for Government this year). In his " pravrâjakanvava” his "pitâ maha” was 'Sivasri. The pupil of Sivasri was Ghoshanandikshamaya (so correct p. 84, 1. 4. Klatt, Onomasticon, had already corrected Ghoshanandikshamâśramaņa). . His pupil was Umâgrâti. In his “vâchanâchâryânvaya" his "pitâmaha" was Muņdapâda "mahâvâchanakshamaņa." Muņda pâda's pupil was Mûlavachaka. His papil was Umâsvîti. Our author was born in Nyagrodhikâ grâma, but was residing in Pataliputra or Kusamapura, when he wrote the Tattvârtba (write viharatâ in 1. 8) His gotra name was Kaubhishanin. His father was Svâti. He was known as Svậtitanaya, because Svâti was the name of his father, and as Vatsîsuta; because his mother was Umâ of the Vatsa gotra (read Vâtsisutena in 1. 9). He was called . Nâgaravachaka by reference to his sâkhâ, and we are apparently to understand that that name is used in the text which Siddhasenagaņi has before him.
In the Digambara pațțâvali published by Hoernle, Indian Antiquary, XX. p. 341, Umâsvâmin (sic : but this must be an erroneous correction from Umâsvâti) is put down as the sixth sûri of the Sarasvatî gachchha, between. Kundakunda and Lohâchârya. Compare 2, p. 163. “19 years grihastha, 25 dîkshâ, 48 years 8 months 1 day pattastha, 5 days viraba, sarvayuh, 84 years 8 months 6 days, Samvat 101 kâti sudi 8 till 142 kshâdha sudi 14." Klatt, Onomasticon, from Hoernle.
(N. B.-Hoernle conjectures, p. 344, that the term viraha in these patta valis means the time which intervened between the death of one pontiff and the enthronisation of his succcessor, but I am told that the interval referred to is the interval between the nomination by a dying pontiff of his successor and the death of the former.) “With the biruda gsidhrapichchha, see Bhand. Rep. 1883-4, p. 417, 1. 12, fr. b. Quoted in Århatadarśana of Madhava's Sarvadarśanasangraha, Ed. Bibl. Ind. p. 34, 1. 8 "yad ayochad Vâchanâcharyah," see Hall, Bibliogr.