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IV. 12 Upangas
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THE FOURTH UPANGA
प्रज्ञापनासूत्र
| Prajiāpanasutra ( quoque)
( Pannavaņäsutta )
761. No. 214
1892-95. Size. — 12 in. by s in. Extent.— 164 + 2 + 1 = 167 folios ; 15 lines to a page ; so letters
to a line. Description.-- Country paper thin and grey in colour ; Devanāgari
characters with east; bold, big, uniform, legible and beautiful hand-writing; borders ruled in four lines in black ink; the space between the pairs coloured red in most of the cases; the dandas drawn in red ink; edges of the first two foll. damaged ; strips of paper pasted to the margins of fol. 1*; two foll. having the same written portion as given in the first two foll. added; unnumbered sides marked with a small ciucular disc in red ink; the numbered having two more, one in each margin ; red chalk used; the yellow pigment, too; strips of paper pasted to the fol. 163 on both the sides ; a piece of paper of the same size as the fol. pasted to the fol. 164th (the last); in spite of that its edges somewhat worn out; the matter written on fol. 164" reproduced on another fol. written on a white paper; condition tolerably good;
fol. 1646 blank; complete; extent 7980 ślokas. Age - Samvat 1586. Author -- Śyāmācārya; he is at times identified with Kālikācārya. Subject.---This fourth Upānga which is also called Prajñāpanā-Bhaga
vati throws flood of light on the nine tattvas in special. It
is divided into 36 chapters known as padas. Begins.--fol. 10 THT TREATO I AĦTIATIU I FAT BAITSTU I FAT34
ज्झायाणं । नमो लोए सव्वसाहूणं।
घवगयजरमरणभये सिद्धे अभिवंदिऊण तिविहणं। धंदामि जिणवरिंदं तेलोले(क)गुरूं(5) महावीरं ॥१॥ etc
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