Book Title: Studies In Umasvati And His Tattvartha Sutra
Author(s): G C Tripathi, Ashokkumar Singh
Publisher: Bhogilal Laherchand Institute of Indology
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Apropos Umāsvāti in Kannada Literature 177 4.5. An inscription of a later period contains an additional
information that the adept Kondakunda wrote the TS and Śivakoisūri, disciple of S B deva, ornamented TS, which is a boat for crossing the ocean of worldly existence [EC. 11(R)No. 360 (254) AD 1398, p. 216]. While interpreting the meaning of this portion of the charter, some have expressed that Śivakoisūri also wrote a comm. on TS. [Saletore; 1938:225, & n-4]; but, a careful examination of the concerned text makes it clear that Śivakoi had mastered the TS and thus the complete knowledge of TS
was his ornament. 4.6. An inscription from Hombuja has an additional infor
mation. It states that Āryadeva had authored TS. [EC. V111 (BLR) Nagara. 35. AD 1077]; Śivakoi-ācārya was a disciple of SB Syami's śisya-santānam. After Sivakoi-ācārya came Varadatta-ācārya and then appeared Aryadeva who was known as the composer of TS. (ibid, lines 70–1]; and the text of the epigraph continues to state that Simhanandi-ācārya, promoter of the Ganga
kingdom followed Aryadeva. 4.7.1. It is interesting to note that the information of Hombuja
inscription is identical with the SB. epigraph No. 360 (254) of 1398 in one point; i.e., so far as the statement that Śivakoisūri, the disciple of SBD, was an ornament to TS (proficient in TS.). SB epigraph of No. 360 is later
than Hombuja inscription No. 35 by three hundred years. 4.7.2. The name of Āryadeva appears again in an inscription of
SB. [EC.11(R)77 (67) 1129, p. 45, lines 78–81]; though the names are one and the same, Aryadeva of Hombuja charter is far ealier to the Aryadeva of SB, epigraph. Aryadeva, mentioned in SB inscription, belongs to the period of mid tenth century AD, and corresponds to the reign of Krsna-III (935–65), the Rastrakuta king.
