Sarvārthasiddhi is a famous Jain text authored by Ācārya Pujyapada. It is the oldest extant commentary on Ācārya Umaswami's Tattvārthasūtra (another famous Jain text).[1] Traditionally though, the oldest commentary on the Tattvārthasūtra is the Gandhahastimahābhāṣya.[2] A commentary is a word-by-word or line-by-line explication of a text.
Ācārya Pujyapada, the author of Sarvārthasiddhi was a famous Digambara monk. Pujyapada was a poet, grammarian, philosopher and a profound scholar of Ayurveda.[3]
The author begins with an explanation of the invocation of the Tattvārthasūtra. The ten chapters of Sarvārthasiddhi are:
In the text, Dāna (charity) is defined as the act of giving one's wealth to another for mutual benefit.
Prof. S. A. Jain translated the Sarvārthasiddhi in English language. In the preface to his book, he wrote: