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125.1
VI. 11 Angas
Extent.---- 302-2-1+1+1=301 leaves, 4 to 5 lines to a leaf ; 115 to
130 letters to a line. Description.-- Palm-leat; Devanagari characters with TEHTIS;
sufficiently big, quite legible and good hand-writing ; this Ms. presents an appearance of having three different columns; but, as a matter of fact it is not so, since the lines are continuously written; every column has its borders ruled in three lines in black ink ; all the leaves numbered in both the margins ; numbering in the right hand margin being 1, 2 etc.; some of the leaves out of 1 to 164 numbered in the left hand margin as 3; leaves 166 to 302 are however numbered in the left hand margin as 1, 2 etc., while in the right hand one as 166, 167 etc.; this Ms. contains an additional work viz. ज्ञाताधर्मकथाङ्गविवृति which begins on leaves 1666 and ends on leaf 302b ; leaf 166a blank ; some of the leaves in the beginning fragmentary ; several leaves more or less worm-eaten; condition on the whole fair; complete; two holes in each leaf through which a thread can pass and keep all leaves together ; leaf 47th numbered as 48 and 49; so the
following ones numbered as 50, 51 etc.; 257th leaf also numbered as 258, the following as 259, 260 etc; leaves 72 and 90 repeated; very thick wooden planks encompassing the Ms.; on both the sides of these wooden planks we have beautiful pictures e.g. those of a temple, a lecturehall, saints delivering sermons to the audience etc.; they are painted in various colours. It seems that the names of various persons depicted in the pictures must have been written above them; for, above a picture of a saint we have श्रीदेवसूरयो व्याख्यानं कुर्वेति. In the centre of the second wooden plank we find the following lines :"संवत् १२९३ वर्षे पौषशुदि १३ महं श्रीअनुपमादेव्या आत्मश्रेयो(s)) श्री.
ओधनियुक्तिपुस्तकं श्रीमदनचंद्रसूरिभ्यः प्रदत्तं ॥" Age.-- Fairly old. Begins... leal sa ( fragment)
धवा(?)रकलियं । कालाग(गु)रुपवरकुंडुरुक्कधूवडझंतं मधमधितं गंधुया. HTTÄ HITTITU sirarg etc.
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