AcharyaUmasvati is the author of Tatvartha Sutra, the best known Jain text. The details of his life are controversial. He is claimed by both the Digambaras and the Shvetambaras. Jump to: navigation, search An acharya is a prominent guru, teacher and scholar who teaches by his own example (from Sanskrit achara, behavior). ... Jump to: navigation, search A text containg about 350 sutras (aphorisms), composed by Acharya Umasvati in about 200 AD. It is used by all the sects of Jains. ... Jump to: navigation, search Digambar, also spelt Digambara is one of the two main sects of Jainism, the other being Svetambar. ... Jump to: navigation, search Svetambar (also spelt Svetambara or Shvetabmbar) is one of the two main sects of Jainism, the other being Digambar. ...
He is thought to have lived around 2nd cent. AD. It is likely that at this time, no clear division of the the Jain Sangha had emerged, and thus both sects may be right in claiming him.
This stability is largely due to Umasvati's Tattvarthasutra, 'Mnemonic Rules on the Meaning of the Reals,' a collection of aphorisms in sutra form written in the fourth or fifth century CE.
Umasvati codified epistemological, metaphysical, cosmological, ethical, and practical elements of Jainism that were to be found dispersed throughout the texts.
Gradually the relationship between the jiva and action as being material was developed and Umasvati drew on texts to show that physical, mental, and verbal activity, termed yoga by the Jains, causes the flowing in of karmic particles.
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