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Jaitla Literature and Philosophy
[6r. Description. - Country paper thin and white ; Jaina Devanagari
characters; small, legible and very fair hand-writing ; borders ruled in red ink; red chalk used; foll. numbered in the right-band margin only; condition very good ; 210 verses ; this Ms. contains an additional work viz. Gacchācāra (Vol. XVII, pt. I, No. 380 ) which begins
on fol. sa and ends on fol. 76. Age.- Pretty old. Author.- 'Dharmaghoşa Suri, pupil of Devendra Súri, founder of
the ‘Tapā 'gaccha. This Dharmaghoșa Sūri is said to have once defeated a non-Taina yogin expert in lores. This Suri was named as Dharmakirti in Vikrama Samvat 1302 when he renounced the world and became a Jaina monk. His elder brother who had renounced the world earlier was named as Vidyānanda. This Dharmaghoșa Sūri be. came Upādhyāya in Vikrama Samvat 1320, Sūri in 1328 and died in 1357. He is an author of several additional works, most of which are hymns. Of them the following s hymns ( each with an avacũri ) are published by the Atmānanda Sabhā:---
FITTOETATOTO ), flour (v. "13), TrugTarot ), Taigianieur ( v. 32 ) and FIATF49 ( v. 24).
In Jaina-stotra-sandola (pt. I) we come across the following hymns:--
TITTAT ( v. 17 ), sitiza TFYTUT (1,9), za. stiaharata ( FAFAT )(v. 39 ), TER77744 ( v. 6), faHa747 (incomplete, GAFAT ( v.9), prajaarmee (v. 40 ), AFI ( FITTEITUT ) ( ". 26), afhaigaTH=40 (v.7), TTRIHANATUITTOTUT ( v. 16), 9pmarata (v. 9), TraTSTAITIA-9127 (v.13), quedaraaa (v. 11 ), ETT (v.9), TEIGTAHTUT ( v. 9 ), lazarasta istakaa (v. 14), *AgráraJH ( v. 27), AETEITIFA 1727 (v.9), Agratar
1 He should be distinguished from bis namesake, pupil of Mānatunga Sūri. 2 This is the total number of verses.
3 The first hemistich of the 1st 8 verses is in Sanskrit whereas the 2nd of each of them in Prakrit.
4 All the verses except the first are in "Apabbramsa".
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