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Studies in Umasvati and His Tattvarthasutra

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Item Code: NAM429
Author: G. C. Tripathi and Ashok Kumar Singh
Publisher: Bhogilal Leherchand Institute of Indology, Delhi
Language: English and Hindi
Edition: 2016
ISBN: 9788120840560
Pages: 294
Cover: Hardcover
Other Details 10.0 inch X 6.5 inch
Weight 650 gm
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"Umasvati alias Umasvami is one of the earliest and the most illustrious authors of the Jain philosophicall views. HisTattvartha [-adhigama-] sutra is hailed as the bedrock of the jain philosophy and enjoys the same prestige among the Jains as perhaps the Bhagavadgita among the Hindus or the holy Bible among the Christians. It is also one of the very few texts which is highly revered and held in high esteem by both the Shvetmbaras and the Digambaras."

About the Editor

G. C. Tripathi is Director, Bhogilal Leherchand Institute of Indology.

Ashok Kumar Singh is Professor, Bhogilal Leherchand Institute Indology.

Foreword

Umasvati alias Umasvami is one of the earliest and the most illustrious authors of the Jain philosophical views. His Tattvartha [-adhigama-] sutra is hailed as the bedrock of the philosophy and enjoys the same prestige among the Jainas as perhaps the Bhagavadgiya among the Hindus or the holy Bible among the Christians. It is also one of the very few texts which is highly revered and held in high esteem by both the Shvetambara and the Digambaras.

Literally translated, the word tattva, synonymous with the Buddhist expression 'tatha-ta', means 'that-ness', i.e. 'reality' or 'true nature'. The quest of this 'reality' does not stop at the level of the investigation of the physical world but extends far beyond to the domain of the Divine and still higher to the level of the Ontological. The Tattvarthasutral has been composed in the Sutra style, a concisely expressed and methodologically arranged composition, much like the earlier works of other 'Astika' schools of thought like Mimansa, Vedanta and Vaisheshika. There are Around 350 Stras (a little less or more according to the two factions of the Jainas) composed in Sanskrit and the work is usually assigned by the scholars to c. 400 CE. A comprehensive commentary (bhashya) is also available on the work which is believed by many to be the Umasvati himself, although many other express their doubts on it. There are also Varttikas on the text and a host of commentarial literature embellishes it.

The Tattvarthasutra summarizes the religious view, philosophy, ethics and the cosmology of the Nirgranthas, which found their first expression in the foregoing canonic literature, in such a wonderfully precise, yet comprehensive manner that no work on the philosophy and ethics of this has ever been able to ignore or bypass it. It served not as a catalytic agent for the development of a wholebady of Jinistic philosophical literature, but also as a model for it. What the Brahmasutra is for the development of Vedanta, the Tattvarthasutra is for the development of the Jinistic thoughts and views.

The present collection of papers contains twenty learned articles of the established scholars who were present during an International Conference on Umasvati (also known as: Vacaka Umasvati, Gridhrapiccha Svami &c.), organized by our Institute, way back the final years of the last century. They were lyingunattended in ourshelf till now due reasons which are not very relevant to quote here, but we hope that through their blessings of the divine souls of those who are now no more with us. What to do? 'habent libri fata sua'!

I express my sincere gratitude to Prof. J. B. Shah and Dr Dhanesh Jain, the two Vice Chairman of the BLII, who not only assigned the job of editing to me but also closely followed its development. Hearty thanks are also due to my learned colleagues Prof. Phool Chand Jain 'Premi' and Prof. Ashok Kumar Singh for their help and support and, last but not least, to Shri Laxmi Kant, the DEO of our Institute, who along with Shri Raju Verma has been very helpful in typesetting, Page-making and preparing the press copy of the work.

Contents

Foreword
1The Works of Vacaka Umasvativii
2English Translations of the Tattvarthadhigamasutra21
3The Yoga of Umasvati29
4Umasvati on the Quality of Sukha39
5Karmic Bondage and Kasayas:71
6Some Observations on Tattvarthasutra95
7Reflection on the Implications of Some Indeas of Umasvati in his Tattvarthasutra103
8Sources of Meditation in Tattvarthasutra from Jaina Canons and Hindu Yoga-Sastra109
9Umasvati on Omniscience117
10Contribution of AcaryaUmasvati to the Concept of Existence125
11Parallelism between Tattvarthsutra and Yoga sutra135
12The Jains Universe in a Profile of Cosmic Man145
13Tattvarthasutra Commentaries of Karnataka155
14Apropos Umasvati in Kannada Literature171
15The Epistemological Concepts of Umasvati: As Interpreted by Yasovijaya189
16आचार्य कुन्दकुन्द और गृद्धपिच्छ उमास्वामी : एक विमर्श197
17तत्वार्थसूत्र का व्याख्या साहित्य205
18तत्वार्थसूत्र में आत्मा सम्बन्धी तत्व217
19तत्वार्थसूत्र में निर्जरा की तरतमता के स्थान : एक समीक्षा221
20उमास्वातिकृत प्रशमरतिप्रकरण : एक अध्ययन229
21तत्वार्थसूत्र की पूज्यपाद देवनंदिकृत सर्वार्थसिद्धिवृति में उद्धरण257
Index271

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