Study of Tattvarthasutra with Bhasya

Author(s): Suzuko Ohira
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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Sec. 4. MATABHEDAS
bhāvanā items of VII:3Bh. to the sūtra proper (group 2), and by supplementing sūtras III:(12-32) (group 3) and V:(29) (group 4), which are all of positive value. But the decisive clue that can corroborate the authenticity of the Svetämbara version was offered by the sūtra V:(29) alone, to which we may add the case of the author's idiomatic ujage evinced in VII:3(3) in relation to VII:(4-8) as a minor but positive evidence.
Sec. 4. MATABHEDAS
Part 1 Matabhedas
The following eight cases and two polemical instances which are going to be discussed independently in pts. 2-3 are concerned with the major matabhedas, which inclu le the doctrinal discordances maintained in the two traditions and the different views held in the two recensions of the T.S we shall begin with the eight cases of matabhedas found in the two texts. (1) I:34-35 Nayas are of five kinds, i. e., naigama, sangraha, vyavahāra, rjusutra
and sabde.
--The source supporting the view : Āvas yakaniryukti 144 (33) They are of seven kinds, adding samabhirūdha and evambhūta to the
above five.
- Anuyogadvāra 953, Āvas yakaniryukti 754 Six nayas are also upheld by Siddhasena Divākara, but the majority of the authors in both traditions accept sevenfold nayas, Therefore the divergence as such which must have arisen at the different stages of development cannot be really speaking called a matabheda. (2) II:13-14 The sthāvaras are of three kinds, i. e., prthivi, ap, and vanaspati. Tejas
and vāyu are the trasas. --- Sthāna 3. 3. 215, Jivājivābhigama 1. 22, etc.,
Uttarādhyayana 36. 60-73, etc. (13) The sthāvaras are of five kinds, i. e., prthivi through vanaspati.
---- sthāna 5. 1. 488, Praśamarati 192 (3) II:31 The jiva's anābāra in transit path is up to three instants.
- Bhagavati 7. 1. 259, Sūtrakrtaniryukti 147. (30) It is up to two instants.
- Prajñāpanā 1175 a (Dixit : Jaina Ontology, p. 87) (4) 11:49 Ahāraka sarira belongs to a caturdaša pūrvadhara.
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