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B6
भगवतीसूत्रवृत्ति
No. 92
Jaina Literature and Philosophy
Size.-12 in. by 43 in. Extent.-277+2=279 folios; 15 lines to a page; 68 letters to a line. Description.-Country paper thick, grey and durable; Devanagari characters with gears; quite bold, perfectly legible, uniform and exceedingly beautiful hand-writing; borders ruled in four lines in black ink, the intervening space between the pairs coloured red; fol. ra blank; fol. 1 decorated with a beautiful picture of a Jaina Tirthankara, probably Lord Mahāvīra ; red chalk and yellow pigment used; the unnumbered sides have in the centre a small disc in red ink, the numbered having over and above this, two more, one in each margin; a piece of paper almost of half the size as the fol. pasted to the first fol.; the edges of the first three foll. slightly worn out; condition on the whole good; foll. 13 and 66 repeated;s of us on foll. 248th and 249th; this Ms. contains the ts of the text; complete; extent 18616 slokas.
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92.
Bhagavatisūtravṛtti 307.
A 1882-83.
Age. Samvat 1516.
Author.-Abhayadeva Sūri, pupil of Jineśvara Suri and Buddhisågara Sūri.
Subject.-A Sanskrit commentary to Bhagavatisütra. This is styled as vivaraṇa, viseṣavṛtti and vṛtti. It is composed in Samvat 1128, with the help of Yaśaścandra Gaņi, and is revised by Drona Sūri.
Begins. -- fol. 1 ॐ नमो जिनाय ॥
सर्वज्ञमीश्वरमनंतमसंगगम्यं सावयमस्मरमनीशमनीहा मेदं । सिद्धं शिवं शिवकरं करणव्यपेतं
श्रीमज्जिनं जितरिपुं प्रयतः प्रणौमि ॥ १ ॥ नवा श्रीवर्द्धमानाय श्रीमते च सुधर्म्मणे । Baiguìugèrì ar(ar )oût wåtâqeer || 2 11 एतट्टीकाचूर्णी जीवाभिगमादिवृत्तिलेशांश्व । संयोज्य पंचमांगं विवृणोमि विशेषतः किंचित् ॥ ३ ॥
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