Ācārya Umāsvāmī’s Tattvārthasūtra – With Explanation in English from Ācārya Pūjyapāda’s Sarvārthasiddhi
By: Edited and Translated by Vijay K. Jain
Publisher: Vikalp Printers
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Dehradun, India
Language: eng; san; hin
Translation of: Tattvārthasūtra
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9788193272626
Description: Ācārya Umāsvāmī’s (circa 1st century CE) Tattvārthasūtra, also known as Mokşaśāstra, is the most widely read Jaina Scripture. It expounds the Jaina Doctrine, the nature of the Reality, in form of aphorisms (sūtra), in Sanskrit. Brief and to-the-point, Tattvārthasūtra delineates beautifully the essentials of all objects-of-knowledge (jñeya). Sarvārthasiddhi by Ācārya Pūjyapāda (circa 5th century CE) is the first and foremost extant commentary on Tattvārthasūtra. Sarvārthasiddhi is an exposition of the reality – the true nature of substances, soul and non-soul – the knowledge of which equips one to tread the path to liberation, as expounded in Tattvārthasūtra. There is beginningless intermingling of the soul (jīva) and the non-soul (ajīva) karmic matter. Our activities (yoga) are responsible for the influx (āsrava) of the karmic matter into the soul. Actuated by passions (kaşāya) the soul takes in particles of the karmic matter; this is bondage (bandha). Obstructing fresh inflow of the karmic matter into the soul – samvara – and its subsequent separation or falling off from the soul – nirjarā – are two important steps in attaining the infallible, utterly pristine, sense-independent and infinitely blissful state of the soul, called liberation (mokşa).
Table of contents: label: Chapter-1
pagenum: 58
title: RIGHT FAITH AND KNOWLEDGE; label: Chapter-2
pagenum: 111
title: CATEGORY OF THE LIVING; label: Chapter-3
pagenum: 146
title: THE LOWER WORLD AND THE MIDDLE WORLD; label: Chapter-4
pagenum: 178
title: THE CELESTIAL BEINGS; label: Chapter-5
pagenum: 232
title: THE NON-LIVING SUBSTANCES; label: Chapter-6
pagenum: 232
title: INFLUX OF KARMAS; label: Chapter-7
pagenum: 307
title: THE FIVE VOWS; label: Chapter-8
pagenum: 345
title: BONDAGE OF KARMAS; label: Chapter-9
pagenum: 405
title: STOPPAGE AND SHEDDING OF KARMAS; label: Chapter-10
pagenum: 405
title: LIBERATION; title: 420
label: Guide to Transliteration; label: Appendix
pagenum: 421
title: THE ‘TATTVĀRTHASŪTRA’ READER; title: 466
label: Epilogue