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XXXVIII: TATTVĀRTHA SŪTRA
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the Svetambara and the Yapaniya traditions and is from the north Indian Uccanagara branch of monks that was not against clothed monasticism.
He was certainly not from the south Indian clothless tradition and his place of birth Nyagrodhika and that of the origin of his Uccanagar branch of monks Uccakalpanagar have been respetively identified as Nagod and Uñcaihara in the central India.
Commentaries And Commentators -
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Tattvärtha Sūtra enjoys such a significant and paramount place of foremost gravity within Jaina works of fundamental profundity that learned scholars from both the Svetämbara and Digambara traditions have felt compelled to write commentaries on this monumental work of a genius that was Vācaka Umāsvāti. Its commentaries have been written on as vide and varied linguistic landscape as in Samskṛta, Hindi, Colloquial languages, etc. and translated into English, German etc. What follows is a brief resume of its commentaries and commentators that enjoy a historical perspective of some importance.
Bhāṣya
This commentary, in Samskrta language, was written by the venerable author himself and it follows that it does not have any difference in the text followed from the original text. The same, however, cannot be said of some other commentaries, by the commentators of Digambara pursuit that have followed the text adopted by Pujyapada, the author of Sarvarthasiddhi Today, the
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