Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit, Series A v1.c7.527

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UMĀSVĀTI VĀCAKA (fl. first century A.D.) This famous Jaina author, born at Nyagrodhikā to Svāti and Vātsi and known as Gṛddhrapiccha, composed at Pāṭaliputra among other works a Tattvārthādhigamasūtra, of which chapters 3 and 4 deal with cosmography and geography, and a Kṣetrasamāsa = Jambūdvīpasamāsa on the same subjects. Manuscripts and commentaries will be found listed in Velankar along with the editions (pp. 154-157 for the Tattvārthādhigamasūtra, pp. 98 and 131-132 for the Kṣetrasamāsa = Jambūdvīpasamāsa). Umāsvāti is mentioned here because of his having been used by W. Kirfel [1920] 208-339 and in various articles by B. Datta. There are commentaries on the Kṣetrasamāsa by Vijayasimha (fl. 1158) and on the Tattvārthādhigamasūtra by Umāsvāti himself (Velankar p. 155), Vādigajagandhahastin Siddhasena Divākara, Siddhasena Gaṇi, Haribhadra and Yaśobhadra, Nāgara Vācaka, Malayagiri, Yaśovijaya Upādhyāya, Samantabhadra, Devanandin Pūjyapāda, Akalaṅka, Padmanābha, Vidyānandin, Yogadeva, Prabhācandra, Śrutasāgara, Bālacandra, Jayanta Paṇḍita, Bhāskaranandin, Kamalakīrti, Divākarabhaṭṭa, Māghanandin, Vibudhasena, Lakṣmīdeva, Śubhacandra, Yogindradeva, Devidāsa, Ravinanda, Padmakīrti, Kanakakīrti, Rājendra Maulin, Śivakoṭi, Ratnasimha, and Prabhācandra.