Sanmati Tarka

Author(s): Siddhasen Divakarsuri, Sukhlal Sanghavi, Bechardas Doshi, Dalsukh Malvania
Publisher: Jain Shwetambar Education Board Paydhoni Mumbai

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I SIDDHASENA DIVĀKARA
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to consider their works as having perfect infallibility. The Jainas also regarded the author of their scriptures as a man of authority and accepted his preachings as absolutely infallible and reliable. The Jainas again regard all other Šāstras except their own as having no authority at all. In order to clear this point and in order to demonstrate the infallibility of the Sāstras created by the omniscient Tirthankara the two great works Sanmati and Aptamīmāṁsā were composed.
(c) Mulācāra. Date of Mūlācāra is not fixed. It is believed to be the work of a Digambarācārya Vattakera. Our critical study has convinced us that Mūlācāra is not in original work but merely a collection, Vattakera has taken 4 gāthās from Sanmati (2 40-43) in Samayasarādhikāra of Mülācāra (10 87-90). And so we can say this much that the work was composed after the times of Siddhasena.
(d) Mallavādī and Jinabhadra. Mallavadi: In the Kathāvali and in the Prabhāvaka Carita, there are some chapters devoted to the life of Mallavādi. It is stated therein that the time when he conquered his Bauddha opponents is 414 Vikram era'. The same Mallavādi is famous for his work Dwādasāranayacakra”. Now this Mallavādi is the same person about whom we want to discuss something here.
Ācārya Hemcandra in his works refers to Mallavādi with the words '318 Herala' arferior:' (vide Siddhahema 2.2.39). Hem candra considers him to be the greatest
1. P.C. p. 74 verse 83. 2. P. C. Mallavadi Prabandha verse 34.