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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
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Description.--- Palm-leaf thick, durable and greyish ; Jaina Devană
gari characters with grafaS; small, quite legible, uniform and very good hand-writing; the Ms. presents an appearance of the work written in two separate columns, but, really speaking, lines of the first extend to the second; borders of each of the columns ruled in two to three lines in black ink; red chalk used; leaves numbered in both the margins; in the right-hand one as 1, 2, 3 etc.; and in the left-hand one as ra, fta, sf, of etc.; leaf ro almost blank;
leaf 2526 completely blank ; leaves 106 and 133 repeated ; leaf 206 missing; ink on leaves 1546 and 155a faded ; leaf 189illegible as ink on this leaf is practically gone; edges of some of the leaves partly worn out; the 25th leaf broken into two parts; condition tolerably fair ; there is a hole in the space between the two columns and a string passes through it; two wooden boards encompass the Ms.; Ratnāvali and such other penances represented in diagrams ( vide leaf 684 ); this Arhatstotra ends on leaf 3a which is not quite legible, ink having faded; 37 verses in all; this Ms. contains in addition the following 162 works :-- (1) 'afegio'tara ( ariantai)
leaf 3a-36 (2) , (? Thaka )
leaves 36-4a (3) AGIAFI Vol. XVII, pt. 4, No. 1379 leaf 42-46 (4) „Vol. XVII, pt. 4, No. 1380 leaves 46-5a os) adarajaar Vol. XVII, pt. 4, No. 1401 leaf sa-sb (6) apdarreala
leaves 56-62 (7) Ararana (aaaa) Vol. XVII, pt. 4, Nos.
1218 & 1318 leaves 62-86 ( 8 ) 457#rør Vol. XVII, pt. 4, No. 1302 » 86-116 (9) gioieplanter (?) Vol. XVII, pt. 4, No. 1254
leaves 11-13a (10) 3971FNUTAI Vol. XVII, pt. 4, No. 1200 leaf 134 (H) Jihaiu Vol. XVII, pt. 4, No. 1390 leaves 136-172 (12) HATTF972 Vol. XVII, pt. 4, No.1287 , 176-182
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