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VI. 12 Upangas
I
THE SIXTH UPANGA
जम्बूद्वीपप्रज्ञत्ति (जंबुद्दीवपण्णात्त)
Jambūdvīpaprajñapti (Jambuddivapannatti)
No. 236
190. 1871-72.
Size.- 104 in. by 4. in. Extent. - I58 folios ; II lines to a page; 40 letters to a line. Description.--Country paper, somewhat thin and white; Devanagari
characters with पृष्टमात्राs; bold, big, legible, uniform and elegant hand-writing ; borders ruled in four lines in black ink; fol. I blank; red chalk used ; some of the foll. have marginal notes in Gujarātï ; white pigment used; a strip of paper pasted to foll. 2 to 5, 91 to 97, 108, 109, 12+ to 129 and 148; foll. 75 to 78, 110 to 123 and 136 to 156 slightly worm-eaten; edges of fol. 158th a little bit worn out;
condition tolerably good ; complete ; extent 4458 ślokas. Age. — Fairly old. Subject. — It forms the sixth upānga and supplies us with infor
mation in details about Tambūdvipa. In short it is a treatise
on Jaina cosmology. Begins.-fol. I' नमः श्रीसर्वज्ञाय ।। णमो अरिहंताणं ।
तेणं कालेणं तेणं समएणं मिहिला णाम णगरी होत्था । रित्थि
मियसामिद्धा etc. Ends.-fol. I58 बहणं देवाणं बहूणं देवीणं मझगति(ते) एवमाइक्खति एवं भासति
एवं पण्णवेइ एवं परूवेइ जंबुद्दीवे(व)पण्णत्ती नाम (त्ति) अज्झो आज्झोयणे अहं च हेउं च पसिणं च । कारणं च वाक(गोरणं च भुज्जो २ उवदंसह त्ति बेमि जंबुद्दीवपण्णत्ती समत्ता : ] ॥ ग्रंथाj० ४४५८ ॥ शुभं भवतु ॥
कल्याणमस्तु[:]॥ श्री श्री श्री॥ Reference. - Published with Santicandra Gani's commentary in the
D. L. J. P. F. Series in two parts in the same year ( A. D. 1920). For contents etc., see Weber II, p. 579, Indian Antiquary vol. XXI, 17 and “ Studi italiani di Filologia indo
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