Traverses on Less Trodden Path of Indian Philosophy and Religion

Author(s): Yajneshwar S Shastri
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

Page 63

54
Traverses on less trodden path... Umasvati by later writers such as Siddhasenagani, Abhayadevasüri and Bhavavijaya, are not traceable in his extant works.
There is no doubt that PRP. is from the pen of the same author who has written TS, with Svopajñabhäşya. Its language and line of thought bear such a remarkable similarity with TS. that it is very difficult to believe that they are from the pen of different authors. Parallel lines are bodily lifted from one work to another which are clearly indicative of the spontaneous outcome of the same author, Secondly, almost all the eminent writers and commentators of Svetambara sect have recognised PRP, as a work of Umāsvāti and have quoted profusely many verses from it in support of their content. Jinadas amabattara (7th A.D.), a great writer, quotes 120th verse from PRP, in his Nisitha curņi after saying that Acarya said so. Haribhadrasuri (8th A.D), known as Yakinisūnu, recognised as a gigantic scholar and commentator quotes two verses from PRP. in his commentary on TSB. by saying that it is said by the same author in other treatise. Siddhasenagani (8th A.D.) commenting on TSB. clearly mentions that the same thing is explained by the same author in his PRP.8 He quotes many verses from PRP. to
4.
5.
(a) 'Vacakenäpyuktam-yadrāgadoṣavad vakyam", TSBT, Part II, VII 9. P. 75. (b) Abhayadevasuri Sthānāngavṛtti-Dänavarṇanam, verse 1-8, Pub. Nirnayasagar Press, Bombay.
(c) Bhāva vijaya-Uttaradhyayanavṛtti, X, P. 244. Pub. Jaina Atmananda Sabha Bhavanagar, 1918.
(d) Säntisūri Uttaradhyayanavṛtti, PP. 93, 95, 180, 191,
(a) TS. I. 1-4, 9-11, 13, 31-32. PRP. 230-31, 222-23, 189, 224-25, 226-27.
(b) TS. II 1, 2, 8, 10, 12-15. 28. PRP.-196, 197, 195-9, 190-2, 287.
(c) TS. III, 1, PRP. 212
(d) TS. V, 1-4, 5-6, 9, 11, 17-18, 19-20, 20, 22, 23, 24, 29, 31. PRP. 207, 214, 213, 208, 215, 217, 218, 216 204 206.
(e) TS. VI, 2-4, 24. PRP.-157, 220, 100.
(f) TS. VII. 12, 16. PRP. 178, 203-4.
(g) TS. VIII, 1, 4-6, 26. PRP.-33, 56, 142, 157, 36, 34-35, 219.
(h) TS. IX, 1-3, 6-7, 18-20, 37. PRP.-220, 159, 221, 167-178. 149-152, 228, 175-76,
246.
i) TS. X. 1-7, PRP. 221, 287, 294, 296–301.
6. Nisithacurai, Part I. gatha 20, bhasya P. 574, ed. Acarya Vijayapremasūriśvara,Litho copy, L.D. Institute of Indology, Ahmedabad, No. 1851.
7. TSBT. III, 6. PRP. 210-211.
8. TSBT. V, 6. PRP.-208, and TSBT. IX, 6, PRP. 80,