Tattvartha Sutra

Author(s): Sukhlal Sanghavi, K K Dixit
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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INTRODUCTION
Śvetāmbara scholars of the 12th-13th centuries A.V. He is famous as a contemporary of Ācārya Hemacandra and the best among the commentators. Scores of works by him are available.
(g) Cirantanamuni
Cirantanamuni is an anonymous Svetāmbara monk. He has composed an ordinary Tippana on Tattvārtha. He flourished some time after the 14th century A. V., for in his Tippana on the aphorism 31 of the chapter five he mentions Syādvādamañjarī, a work by Mallisena of the 14th century.
(h) Vācaka Yaśovijaya
Of the commentary on the bhāsya composed by Vācaka Yaśovijaya an incomplete part pertaining to the chapter one is available. He is famous as the last authoritative scholar of not only the Svetāmbara sect but the Jaina community in general. His numerous works are available?. Assimilating the development of logic that had taken place by the 17th-18th centuries he has given a logical form to the Jaina scriptural positions, and composing monographs on different topics he has smoothed the way for a minute study of Jaina philosophy.
(i) Gaņi-Yaśovijaya
Gani-Yaśovijaya is different from the just mentioned Vācaka Yaśovijaya. As to when he flourished is not known. And any other historical information about him is equally unavailable. In the form of his work just the Gujarati Tabā-Tippaņa on Tattvārtha is available uptil now. As to whether he also composed any other work is not known. In view of the language and style of his Tippana he seems to have belonged to the 17th-18th centuries. Two of his specialities are worth mentioning.
made by himself in his commentary on Prajñāpanā-as also on the basis of similar other mentions : "tac căprăptakaritvam tattvārthatikādau vistarena prasādhitam iti tato’vadhāranīyam", Pada 15, p. 298.
1. See the Introduction to Dharmasangrahaņi, p. 36. 2. See the Introduction to Jainatarkabhāsā, Singhi Series.