Tattvartha sutra

Author(s): Umaswati, Umaswami, D S Baya
Publisher: Agam Ahimsa Samta Evam Prakrit Samsthan

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XXXII : TATTVĀRTHA SŪTRA
masters (Pattāvalī) by Dharmasāgara.
The laudatory composition (Prasasti) of Tattvārtha Sūtra, mentioned earlier, clearly states that Vācaka Umāsvāti was ordained as a monk by Ghosanandi Ksamamana who had mastered eleven primary cancns. His teacher (Vacakācarya) was Mūla and the grandteacher was Mahāvācakācarya Mundpāda and that he was from the Uccanāgara branch of monks. These details can be summarized as follows:' - a. Preceptor for initiation - Ekādaśāngavid Ghosanandi
Kşmaņa b. Grand-preceptor
- Vācakamukhya Śivaśrī c. Preceptor Teacher - Vācakācārya Müla d. Grand-preceptor Teacher - Mahāvācakācārya Mundapād
ksamaņa According to Prof. Sagarmal Jain the monastic tradition of Umasvāti (Uccairnāgarī sākhā) derived its name from a place called Uñceharā, which is, again, in the central India and not very far from his birth-place Nagod.!' However, he could have written the auto-commentary (Svopajña Bhāsya) in Kusumpur."
Doubts have been expressed about the validity of the laudatory composition itself which now appears at the end of the Tattvārtha Bhāsya the auto-commentary by the aphorist himself, but there is no reason to believe that it has not been composed by Umāsväti himself. Well-known scholars like Dr. Herman Jacobi are of the view that it is Umasvāti's own composition, a fact that
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A Study of Tattvārthasūtra With Bhāsya, ibid, p. 42. Tattvārthasūtra Aur Uski Paramparā, ibid, pp. 136-140. Ibid, p. 142.
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