Sambodhi 2014 Vol 37

Author(s): J B Shah
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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Vol. XXXVII, 2014
The Works of Vācaka Umāsvāti
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"Tathā ca Vācakah :
'Saucam-adhyātmikaṁ tyaktvā bhāva-suddhay-ātmakaṁ śubham | jal-adi-saucam yatre-stam müdha-vismāpakam hi tad ||'".
· advocates preference for the spiritual/internal cleanliness (śauca) to the one externally done of the body through the use of) water, etc. To all seeming, this verse, too, had belonged to the above-noted lost Saucaprakarana and the 'Vācaka', whose authority was invoked by Santi-sūri, predictably is none else but Umāsvāti, an inference that as well receives on the basis of the stylistic features of the verse under reference.
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The Śrāvakaprajñpti Some svetāmbara writers of our time confounded (and still confuse) the Sāvayapannatti, a prakaraṇa in Prakrit (c. 3rd quarter of the 8th cent. A.D.) by Yakinīsūnu Haribhadra sūri (of Vidyadhara kula) with Umāsvāti's Śrāvakaprajñpti12. The last-noted work probably had been composed in Sanskrit, because Umāsvāti, as his extant works as well as the citations from his lost compositions indicate, had written exclusively in Sanskrit13. The following two citations, two medieval commentaries, very plausibly were taken from the Śrāvakaprajñpti since the content in both cases relate to śrāvaka and what is more, the authors of the commentaries attribute these verses to Umāsvāti. The Navānga-vrttikāra Abhayadeva sūri (of Candra kula), in his Tīkā (c. A.D. 1080) on the Pañcāśaka of the afore-mentioned Haribhadra sūri, ascribes the following sentence to Umāsvātil4 : "Umādvāti-vācaken-āpy-asya samarthitvāna tathā-hi ten-oktam :
'Samyag darśana-sampannah sadvidh-āvasyaka-niratas-ca śrāvako bhavati.'"
The phrasing as well as choice of specific words here undoubtedly, indeed absolutely, reflect Umāsvāti's style. Also, Municandra sūri (of Bịhadgaccha), in his Tīkā (c. A.D.1100) on the Dharmabindu of Haribhadra sūri, explicitly mentions Umāsvāti's Śrāvakaprajñpti and therefrom25 :
"Umāsväti-viracita-Śrāvakaprajñptau yu atīthi-sabdena sādhv-ādayanca catvāro grhitäh tatas-stesām samvibhāgah kāry-etyuktam | Tathā ca tatpāthaḥ: