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THE THIRD UPANGA जीवाजीवाभिगमसूत्र
Jivājivābhigamasūtra जीवाजीवाभिगमसुत्त)
(Jivājivābhigamasutta ) No. 198
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1891-95. Size.— 125 in. by 47 in. Extent.-- 134 folios; 13 lines to a page ; 46 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper thin and while ; Devanāgari charac
ters with TTATETS ; quite legible, very big, uniform and very beautiful hand-writing; borders ruled in four lines in black ink ; the intermediate space between the pairs coloured red ; a piece of paper of the same size as the fol. pasted to fol. 1a; foll. Ib and za decorated with beautiful pictures, the ist with that of Samavasarana with a Jina delivering a sermon and the 2nd with that of the audience; numbers entered thrice; once at the top in the left hand margin and twice in the right hand margin at the top as well as at the bottom; double set of numbers: 1, 2, 3 as usual and 89, 90, etc. as well ; i. e. to say the ist is also numbered as 89 ; unnumbered sides are mostly decorated with one circular disc in the centre, the numbered with two more, one in cach margin ; even these arc embordered at times; yellow pigment used; red chalk, too; condition very
good ; complete; extent 5200 ślokas. Age.-- Samvat 1557 or at least not earlier. Su bject. This third u pānga deals with the fundamental principles
of Jainism. It furnishes us with details about the animate
and inanimate objects. Begins. -- fol. 15 AĦN FFAMATT I PHÌ THIETTU I agafarg fremstalui 1
इह खलु जिणमयं जिणाणुलोम(ग)। जिणप्पणीयं जिणप्परूवियं । etc. Ends. -- fol. 134' 39Tha SFO STITUTT I 219TH ET STUTATOTT I STTCAIA
रिक्ख अणंतगुणा सेयं दसावहा जीवापन्नत्ता । से तं सब्धजीवाजीवाभिगFEET HII glej PTT 11Y700 Il yü Hall 11 7: 11 sat: 11 This is followed by the following lines in a small hand :
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