Book Title: Tattvarthadhigamsutram Part 2
Author(s): Umaswati, Umaswami, Hiralal R Kapadia
Publisher: Jivanchandra Sakarchandra

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________________ 10 INTRODUCTION figuratively where the Lord of Philosophy is married to the Muse of Poetry) may have suggested the starting point to our author who utilized his wonderful ability in expanding these principles and in exhibiting them in a scientific way. This work of his is known amongst the Digambaras as moksa-śāstra. The Method of Composition Tattvārthasūtra is divided into 10 short chapters, styled as iadhyā. yas as is the case with the Vaišeșika sūtra, the number of the sūtras of the fomer being 344, whereas that of the latter 333. But it may be noted that these adhyāyas of the Tattvārtha are not further subdivided as the āhnikas (daily lessons) or the pādas, and thus they differ both from the Vaiseșika sūtra and the Yoga darśana which are respectively divided into the āhnikas and the pādas. Of course, this remark is applicable only to the Svetāmbaras; for, such a task is subsequently undertaken by the Digambara commentators like Sri Akalankadeva and others. One of the striking features is that like the Yoga darśana, this Tattvārtha goes on treating the subjects on axiomatic basis. It does not wait to add pros and cons to establish their veracity as is the case with the Vaićeșika and Nyāya systems. The form of the sūtras of Tattvārtha is hardly metrical. So it differs from those of Jaimini, Bādarāyana and others. For, a very large number of sūtras or parts of sūtras of Jamini are identical in form with metrical pieces: slokas, three fourths of ślokas, hemistiches and pādas. Even, in the Vedānta sūtras on the whole there are 30 metrical pādas. In Katyāyana-srauta-sūtras too, there are 13, the total number of the sūtras being 256. 1. Umāsvāti is the first Jaina, it seems to have used this term instead of the current term adhyayana. 2. Nyāya darśana is, too, divided into adhyāyas but their number is 5; the number of the āhnikas is however 10, that of the sūtras 528 and that of the padas 196. So is Mimāmsā darśana or Jaiminīya sūtra. 3. Yoga darśana consists of 195 sūtras grouped under four heads called padas. The Brahmasūtras or the Šariraka sūtras as they are called are also arranged as padas, the complete work consisting of 555 sütras in four adhyāyas, each subdivided into four pādas. 4. Cf. 192777 Har:” (X. 3) which forms a pāda. 5. For details see "Proceedings and transactions of the fifth Oriental Confe. rence" (vol. II, pp. 842-852), Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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