Sambodhi 2014 Vol 37

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

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M. A. Dhaky
SAMBODHI
(Cf. H.R.Kapadia, Tattvārthādhigamasūtra, Pt.2, Surat 1930, p.275, Sūtrabhāsya 9.39.) The above-cited Āryās in the first instance many indicate that Umāsvāti was yugpatvādi, the first on record to so believe. Whether he himself intellected that way, or was it according to the āgamic tradition of the Uccarnāgaraśākha, is hard at present to decide. The Digambara tradition believe in this dogma, the evidence on their side of course posterior to Umāsvāti by a few centuries. Incidentally, a part of the bhāsya on the sūtra 1.31 also has been interpreted to mean that Umāsvāti was a believer in yugpatvāda. (Cf. Suzuko Ohira, A study of Tattvārthasūtra with Bhāsya, LDS No.86, Ahmedabad 1982, Chap.3, pp. 7 & 79. Some years ago, during my discussion with Dr. Nagin Shah, however, I was given to understand that the passage in question does not yield the meaning Pt. Sukhlal Sanghavi (as well as Suzuko Ohira) had deduced.) The next luminary apparently to believe in yugpatvāda was Siddhasena Divākara as evidence by the undernoted two verses from his dvātrimśikās :
"Jagan=n-aik-āvastham yugpad-akhil-ānanta-visayam yad-etat-pratyakşam tava na ca bhavan kasyacid-api Anen=aiv-ācintya-prakrti-rasa-siddhes-tu vidusām samiksyai-tad-dvāram tava-guna-kath=oktā vayam-api 1"
- Prathama Dvātrimśikā, 32. Also from one of his lost Dvātrimśikās :
"Evaṁ kalpita-bhedam-apratihatam sarvajñatā-lāñchanam sarvesām tamasāṁ nihant? jagatām-ālokanaṁ śāvatarii || Nityam paśyati budhyate ca yugpan-nāna-vidhāni prabhau
sthity=utpatti-vināśavanti vimalam dravyāni te kevalam || (Quoted in the Kottārya ganī's Țikā (c. A.D.700-725) on the Vises = āvasyakabhāsya (c.585-595) of Jinabhadra gani : Cf. Višes = āvasyaka-bhāsya Pt. III, Eds. Pt. Dalsukh Malvania and Pt. Becherdas J. Doshi, L.D. Series No.21, Ahmedabad 1968, p.741. It also figures in the commentary on the Vises = Āvaśyaka-bhāsya (A.D.1119) by Hemacandra sūri of Harsapurīyagaccha SYJG(35), V.N.S.2439 (A.D.1912), p.1198). There it has been quoted in the name of 'Stutikāra' (i.e. Siddasena Divākara). Thus Siddasena Divākara apparently had believed, and indeed, I may repeat, earlier than the known Digambara authors and their works, in the yugpatvāda. And so did the dārśanic scholar Mallavādi (c.A.D.550-660), a Svetāmbara epistemologist as reported by Abhayadeva sūri in his Tikā (c. A.D. 975-1000) on the Saṁmatiprakarana of Siddhasena Divākara. Siddhasena, in the next step of