Study of Tattvarthasutra with Bhasya

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

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Sec. 3. TEXTUAL COMMENTARY
inessential portions in the s.karika for these did not mean much in the context of his time, and replaced the s. kärikä by the min galacarana which was directly derived from the karikas 21 and 31. We have thus collected in this section sufficient data which may not establish themselves as decisive evidences, but are positiv. enough in accepting the: joint authorship of the s.kärikä if the testimonies of the other Bhasya portions were produced.
Sec. 3. TEXTUAL COMMENTARY
Part 1 Treatment of citations
The problem, whether or not the textual commentary was composed by the same aphorist, is going to be handled in the first three parts of this section: Pt. 1) Treatment of citations, Pt. 2) Modes of elucidation, and Pt. 3) Polemical aphorisms and their expositions. Here again a decisive testimony comes from the independent inquiries into the controversial suras and their expositions made in Part 3, and the ample positive evidences alleged in the first two parts serve in the capacity of fortifying the same testimony.
The sutra V:38, 'kalas-ce:y-eke', suggests that there were two views on kala in the canon in respect of its dravyatva. As is evinced in the quest for matabbedas, the Jaina canon preserves many conflicting views as to one and the same concept which. have arisen in the long course of time. The aphorist is therefore necessarily constrained to represent a selected view on it according to his own judgment, or he may simply. juxtapose the different views in tradition by reserving his personal justification. The sūtra V:38 is made in the sense of the latter. The Bhasya contains several similar cases as such which quotes the opinions of the others by way of indefinite pronouns such as 'kecit' 'ekācārya', 'eka', and the like, as follows:
1:5 nama-sthapana-dravya-bhavatas-tan-nyasah
Bh. kecid-apy-ahur-yad-dravyato dravyam bhavati tac-ca pudgala-dravyameveti pratyetavyam
1:6 praman-nayair-adhigamaḥ
Bh. tatra pramanam dvi-vidham... catur-vidham-ity-eke
-Fourfold pramapas are enumerated in the Anvyogadvara 131, 'pamane cau-vvihe pannattel tam-jahā nā na-ppamane thavana-ppamāne davva-ppamane bhava ppamanel, which are likewise recorded in the Sthana 4.1.321. The Bhagavatt 5 4 192 reads, 'pamane cau-vvihe p-o tam -iaha-paccakkhe aṇumane o amme agame... which reflects an influence made by the Nyayasutra 1.1.3.
1:31 ekadini bhāyāl yugapad-ekasminnā caturbhyah
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