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V. 12 Upāngas
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Asiatic Society of Bengal, vol. XLIX, pp. 107-127 and 181-206 ), Calcutta, 1880, R. Shamasastri's articles published in the journal of the Mythic Society, vols. XV and XVI, and J. Burgess's “ Notes on Hindu Astronomy and the History of our knowledge of it" (Journal of Great Britain and Ireland, pp. 717-761 ), London, 1893. For quotations etc., see Weber I. p. 372 and II. p. 574ff., and Indian Antiquary vol. VII, pp. 28-29' and vol. XXI, p. 14ff. A summary etc. of this important work is given in “The Jaina School of Astronomy” published in Indian Historical Quarterly vol. VIII, No. 1, pp. 30-42. “A short chronology of Indian Astronomy" (I. H. Q. vol. VII, No. 1, pp. 137-149 ) may be also consulted. For a discussion in German see G. Thibaut's Astronomie, Astrologie und Mathematik (Grundriss der indo-arischen Philologie und Altertumskunde, Band III, Heft. 9 ), Strassburg, 1899. For additional Mss. see B. B. R. A. S. vols. III-IV, p. 402 and G. O. Series vol. XXI, p. 1.
सूर्यप्रज्ञप्तिटीका
Sūryaprajñaptitikā
No. 235
19. 1881-82.
Size.— 33 in. by 48 in. Extent.-- Not possible to state. Description.- Palm-leaf; Devanāgari characters with TAS;
small, legible, uniform and very good hand-writing; this Ms. presents an appearance of the work having been written into three separate columns, but it is not so; borders for each column ruled in three lines in black ink: in the space between every two columns, there is a hole ; leaves numbered in both the margins, as in the case of other palm-leaf Mss.; since this Ms. is extremely damaged, it is
I.
Herein there is G. Bühler's article “ The Digambara Jainas", which discusses the connection between Trilokasāra and Suryaprajñapti.
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