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124.J
ज्ञाताधर्मकथाङ्गसूत्र ( णायाधम्म कहंगसुत )
No. 124
Size. 10 in. by 4 in.
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Description.
VI. 11 Angas
THE SIXTH ANGA
Jñātādharmakathāngasūtra (Nayadhammakahangasutta)
155 folios; 13 lines to a page; 44 letters to a line.
Begins. [0]. 1 श्रीजिनाय नमः ॥
Jain Education International
32.
1869-70.
Country paper thick and greyish; Devanagari characters with gears; big, legible and good hand-writing; ink not faded; borders ruled in four lines in black ink; fol. 1 blank; red chalk used; yellow pigment, too; numbers of foll. entered twice on one and the same side but in different margins; foll. 147 to 152 have their margins slightly worm-eaten; edges of the 155th (last) fol. somewhat damaged; a strip of paper pasted to it; condition on the whole good; complete; extent 5500 slokas. Age.- Old.
Author.
Subject.
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Sudharmasvamin according to the Jaina tradition.
This is the sixth anga. It is divided into two parts known as śrutaskandha. The former has 19 subdivisions called adhyayanas and the latter, 10, styled as vargas. This entire work deals with narratives having a moral and religious purpose behind it. These narratives are free from sectarian spirit and are useful to the persons of any and every school of thought. Such a remark is made by Dattatreya Balakrishna Kalelkar in his foreword to the Gujarati translation of this work published in the Puñjābhai Jaina Granthamala No. 3, 1931, Ahmedabad. This work is variously named e. g. Jñatadharmakatha, Jñātṛdharmakatha and Nathadharmakatha; the last two being the names according to the Digambaras.
ते काले तेणं समए चंपा नाम नपरी होत्था | ओ । सोसे चंपा नमरीए बहिया etc.
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