TattvārtharājavārttikavyākhyāTattvārtharājavārttikaTattvārthaPlain text of Mahendrakumar Jain's 1999 editionDigital textresource created byH. TrikhaPublished within the Digital Corpus of Vidyānandin's Works at www.dipal.org/dcv under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International LicenseOctober 22, 2026Akalaṅkdeva-viracitaṃ Tattvārthavārtikam (Rājavārtikam) hindīsārasahitam. 2 vols. sampādaka: Mahendrakumār Jain. (Jñānapīṭha Mūrtidevī Jaina Granthamālā: Saṃskṛta Grantha 10, 20). [1953], 5th edition New Delhi: Bharatiya Jnanpith 1999.Digitized print edition: dcv/Tattvārtharājavārttikavyākhyā/TARVV-MK-pThis resource for the text of the Tattvārtharājavārttikavyākhyā (TARVV) is published alongside other digital resources for the work. The resource at hand, TARVV-MK‑t, is a resource for the specific text of the edition by Mahendrakumar Jain (MK) in 1999. The resource renders only the plain text (t) without metatext except for punctuation and indication of verse or prose. H. Trikha created this resource during his occupations at the Institutes for South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna, and for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia, Austrian Academy of Sciences. Substantial work was done in the project “Perspectivism and intertextuality in Vidyānandin’s works,” funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF Schrödinger project J 3880-G24). Trikha is especially grateful to Thomas Malten for organizing the capture of the printed edition and the intial xml-encoding. Excluded in plain text: ref, type=note-block-container, type=note-block-page-foot, notetype=inline-remark, notetype=inline-reading-suggestionnotetype=work-with-parallel, notetype=not-accepted, noteana=not-accepted, Non-accepted notes are indicted with brackets in full text. All such remarks are removed in plain-text. 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TARVV-MK 1,00śrī­ma­dbha­ṭṭā­ka­la­ṅka­de­va­vi­ra­ci­taṃ TARVV-MK 1,00ta­ttvā­rtha­vā­rti­ka­mTARVV-MK 1,01praṇamya sa­rva­vi­jñā­na­ma­hā­spa­da­mu­ru­śri­ya­m | TARVV-MK 1,02ni­rdhū­ta­ka­lma­ṣaṃ vīraṃ vakṣye ta­ttvā­rtha­vā­rti­ka­m || 1 || TARVV-MK 1,03śre­yo­mā­rga­pra­ti­pi­tsā­tma­dra­vya­pra­si­ddheḥ | | u­pa­yo­ga­sva­bhā­va­syā­tma­naḥ śreyasā yo­kṣya­mā­ṇa­sya TARVV-MK 1,04prasiddhau satyāṃ ta­nmā­rga­pra­ti­pi­tso­tpa­dya­te | katham ? TARVV-MK 1,05ci­ki­tsā­vi­śe­ṣapra­ti­pa­tti­va­t | | yathā vyā­dhi­ni­vṛ­tti­ja­pha­la­śre­ya­sāṃ yo­kṣya­mā­ṇa­sya ciki- TARVV-MK 1,06tsyasya prasiddhau ci­ki­tsā­mā­rga­vi­śe­ṣa­pra­ti­pi­tso­tpa­dya­te tathā ā­tma­dra­vya­pra­si­ddhau śre­yo­mā­rga­pra­ti- TARVV-MK 1,07pitseti | tasmāt sā­dhī­ya­sī mo­kṣa­mā­rga­vyā­khyā svā­ya­mbha­vī­ti | kiñca, TARVV-MK 1,08sa­rvā­rtha­pra­dhā­na­tvā­t | | saṃ­sā­ri­ṇaḥ pu­ru­ṣa­sya sa­rve­ṣva­rthe­ṣu mokṣaḥ pra­dhā­na­m­, pradhāne ca TARVV-MK 1,09kṛto yatnaḥ pha­la­vā­n bhavati ta­smā­tta­nmā­rgo­pa­de­śaḥ kāryaḥ ta­da­rtha­tvā­t | TARVV-MK 1,10mo­kṣo­pa­de­śaḥ pu­ru­ṣā­rtha­pra­dhā­na­tvā­di­ti cet; na; ji­jñā­sa­mā­nā­rthi­pra­śnā­pe­kṣi­pra­ti­va­ca­na­sa­dbhā- 4vāt | | āha mo­kṣo­pa­de­śa eva kāryo na mā­rgo­pa­de­śaḥ | kasmāt ? pu­ru­ṣā­rtha­pra­dhā­na­tvā­t | sa­rva­śre­yo- TARVV-MK 1,12bhyaḥ puṃso mokṣa eva paraṃ śreyaḥ ā­tya­nti­kā­nu­pa­ma­śre­ya­stvā­di­ti­; tanna; ji­jñā­sa­mā­nā­rthi­pra­śnā­pe­kṣi- TARVV-MK 1,13pra­ti­va­ca­na­sa­dbhā­vā­t | yo'sau mo­kṣe­ṇā­rthī ji­jñā­sa­mā­naḥ sa mā­rga­me­va pṛ­ṣṭa­vā­n na mo­kṣa­m­, atasta- TARVV-MK 1,14nmā­rgo­pa­de­śa eva nyāyyaḥ | TARVV-MK 1,15mo­kṣa­me­va ka­smā­nnā­prā­kṣī­di­ti cet ? na; kā­rya­vi­śe­ṣa­sa­mpra­ti­pa­tteḥ | | syā­de­ta­t — ayaṃ praṣṭā TARVV-MK 1,16mo­kṣa­me­va kasmānna pṛ­ṣṭa­vā­n kai­ma­rtha­kyā­nmā­rgaṃ pṛ­ṣṭa­vā­ni­ti ? tanna; kā­rya­vi­śe­ṣa­sa­mpra­ti­pa­tteḥ | TARVV-MK 1,17mo­kṣa­kā­ryaṃ prati sarveṣāṃ sa­dvā­di­nāṃ sa­mpra­ti­pa­tte­rna kāraṇaṃ prati | TARVV-MK 1,18kāraṇaṃ tu prati vi­pra­ti­pa­ttiḥ­, pā­ṭa­li­pu­tra­mā­rga­vi­pra­ti­pa­tti­va­t | | yathā kecit puruṣā TARVV-MK 1,19nā­nā­di­gbhā­gā­pe­kṣi­ṣu mārgeṣu vi­pra­ti­pa­dya­nte na pā­ṭa­li­pu­tre prā­pta­vye­, tathā mo­kṣa­kā­ryaṃ pra­ti­pa­dya TARVV-MK 1,20ta­da­rtha­mā­dṛ­tāḥ sarve sa­dvā­di­na­sta­tkā­ra­ṇe­ṣu vi­pra­ti­pa­dya­nte | ta­dya­thā­, ke­ci­ttā­va­dā­huḥ — jñā­nā­de­va TARVV-MK 1,21mokṣa iti | apara āhuḥ — jñā­na­vai­rā­gyā­bhyā­mi­ti | pa­dā­rthā­va­bo­dho jñā­na­m­, vi­ṣa­ya­su­khā­na- TARVV-MK 1,22bhi­ṣva­ṅga­la­kṣa­ṇaṃ vai­rā­gya­mi­ti | apara āhuḥ — kriyāta eva mokṣa iti *­“­ni­tya­ka­rma­he­tu­kaṃ TARVV-MK 1,23ni­rvā­ṇa­m­” iti va­ca­nā­t | kiñca, TARVV-MK 2,01pa­rā­bhi­prā­ya­ni­vṛ­ttya­śa­kya­tvā­t | | na ca parasya praṣṭuḥ pra­śnā­bhi­prā­yo­'­sma­dā­di­bhiḥ śakyo TARVV-MK 2,02ni­va­rta­yi­tuṃ ‘mā prā­kṣī­rmā­rgaṃ mokṣaṃ pṛccha’ iti, bhi­nna­ru­ci­tvā­llo­ka­sya |