TattvārtharājavārttikavyākhyāTattvārtharājavārttikaTattvārthaBare 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.Plain text: dcv/Tattvārtharājavārttikavyākhyā/TARVV-MK-t

This resource for the text of the Tattvārtharājavārttikavyākhyā (TARVV) is published alongside other digital resources for the work. The resource at hand, TARVV-MK‑b, is a resource for the specific text of the edition by Mahendrakumar Jain (MK) in 1999. The resource renders the bare text (b) only.

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.

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śrīmadbhaṭṭākalaṅkadevaviracitaṃ tattvārthavārtikam praṇamya sarvavijñānamahāspadamuruśriyam nirdhūtakalmaṣaṃ vīraṃ vakṣye tattvārthavārtikam

upayogasvabhāvasyātmanaḥ śreyasā yokṣyamāṇasya prasiddhau satyāṃ tanmārgapratipitsotpadyate katham

yathā vyādhinivṛttijaphalaśreyasāṃ yokṣyamāṇasya cikitsyasya prasiddhau cikitsāmārgaviśeṣapratipitsotpadyate tathā ātmadravyaprasiddhau śreyomārgapratipitseti tasmāt sādhīyasī mokṣamārgavyākhyā svāyambhavīti kiñca

saṃsāriṇaḥ puruṣasya sarveṣvartheṣu mokṣaḥ pradhānam pradhāne ca kṛto yatnaḥ phalavān bhavati tasmāttanmārgopadeśaḥ kāryaḥ tadarthatvāt

āha mokṣopadeśa eva kāryo na mārgopadeśaḥ kasmāt puruṣārthapradhānatvāt sarvaśreyobhyaḥ puṃso mokṣa eva paraṃ śreyaḥ ātyantikānupamaśreyastvāditi tanna jijñāsamānārthipraśnāpekṣiprativacanasadbhāvāt yo'sau mokṣeṇārthī jijñāsamānaḥ sa mārgameva pṛṣṭavān na mokṣam atastanmārgopadeśa eva nyāyyaḥ

syādetat ayaṃ praṣṭā mokṣameva kasmānna pṛṣṭavān kaimarthakyānmārgaṃ pṛṣṭavāniti tanna kāryaviśeṣasampratipatteḥ mokṣakāryaṃ prati sarveṣāṃ sadvādināṃ sampratipatterna kāraṇaṃ prati

yathā kecit puruṣā nānādigbhāgāpekṣiṣu mārgeṣu vipratipadyante na pāṭaliputre prāptavye tathā mokṣakāryaṃ pratipadya tadarthamādṛtāḥ sarve sadvādinastatkāraṇeṣu vipratipadyante tadyathā kecittāvadāhuḥ jñānādeva mokṣa iti apara āhuḥ jñānavairāgyābhyāmiti padārthāvabodho jñānam viṣayasukhānabhiṣvaṅgalakṣaṇaṃ vairāgyamiti apara āhuḥ kriyāta eva mokṣa iti nityakarmahetukaṃ nirvāṇam iti vacanāt kiñca

na ca parasya praṣṭuḥ praśnābhiprāyo'smadādibhiḥ śakyo nivartayituṃ 'mā prākṣīrmārgaṃ mokṣaṃ pṛccha' iti bhinnarucitvāllokasya