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EDITOR'S NOTE
Gaccha. In the catalogue it is listed under No. 77. Folios 1 to 26 contain the Nandisūtra only and again folios 1 to 297 contain the Nandisūtravrtti by Ac. Malayagiri. Its size is 339" 21". Each side of the folio contains 3 to 4 lines. The ms. is written in three parts. This is the most correct of all the mss. It has been corrected by Kharataragacchiya Ac. Jinabhadrasūri himself. On the terms of the original text he has written useful and important notes which we have given in this edition at concerned places. The script of the ms. is excellent and the condition good. The colophon, which it contains at the end, is as follows:
Svasti/ Samvat 1488 varse Sri Satyapure pausavadi 10 dine Śri pārsvadevajanmakalyāņake sri kharatara gacchādhipaiḥ śrījinarājasūripattālänkārasāraiḥ prabhuśrīmajjinabhadrasūri-süryavatāraiḥ śrinandisiddhāntapustakaṁ svahastena śodhitam pațhitam ca tac ca śriśramanasanghena vācyamānam cira nandatu ||
Generally we come across a good number of mss. got copied at the instance of Ac. Jinabhadrasūri by Parikşita (Parikh) Dharaņāśāha of Kharatara Gaccha and Balarāja Udayarāja of Srimālajñāti(?), all residents of Cambay. But this colophon does not mention the name of the person who got the ms. copied. The colophon makes it clear that Âc. Jinabhadrasūri might have been doing the work of teaching, writing mss., correcting them, etc. along with other main works.
JO - This paper ms. belongs to Lavārapole Upāśraya Jñana Bhandāra, Ahmedabad. It contains 35 folios. It has 9 lines per side and 31 to 42 letters per line. Its script is excellent and condition good. The hand-writings are considerably large. The colophon of the copyist is as follows:
Samo 1485 Phālguna sudi 7 śanau śrībhimapallīya.... [letters erased ] śrih || chha || śubham bhavatu || chha ||
The letters that have been written afterwards in place of the letters erased are :
säha śrīvacchă suta säha sahisakasya svapunyārthar pustakabhandāre kārāpitä sutavarddhamānapustakaparipälanärtham || chha ||
ATO—This paper ms. belongs to Modi Jñāna Bhandāra preserved in the Sri Hemacandrācārya Jaina Jñāna Mandir, Patan. It has 14 folios. The first folio contains the beautiful picture of Samavasaraņa. Each side of the folio has 15 lines and each line has 57 to 59 letters. The script of the ms. is excellent and condition good. Its size is 13}" 51". It is numbered 10026. At the end we have a colophon of the copyist. It is as follows:
samvat 1569 varse śrāvana sudi 4 budha Nandisutram jão bhatta li [oll]
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