Brill's Encyclopedia of Jainism Online

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Umāsvāti

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Auteur(s): Soni, Jayandra
The name Umāsvāti is the more common Śvetām­bara designation for the renowned and revered Jain teacher to whom the Digambaras also refer as Umāsvāmin or Umāsvāmī. Indeed, these names present something of a conundrum. J. Mukhtār1 supposes that the Digambara tradition came to use the name Umāsvāmin through the influence of the works of Śrutasāgarasūri in the 16th century. P. Balcero­wicz, on the other hand, claims that the author of the Tattvārtha Sūtra (c. 350–400) was a different person from the author of the Tattvārthādhigamabhāṣya (c. 400–450), a Śvetāmbara commentary thereon…
Source: Brill's Encyclopedia of Jainism Online
Date: 2020-04-07