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कल्पसूत्र ( कष्पसुत्त )
No. 496
IV. 6 Chedasatras
in.
Size.--103 in. by 4
Extent. 63 folios; 7 lines to a page; 40 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper thick, rough and greyish; Jaina Devanagari characters with occasional years; bold, quite legible and tolerably good hand-writing; borders ruled in four lines in black ink; the intervening space between the pairs coloured yellow; every numbered side is decorated with a small design in each of the two margins; fol. 16b spoiled; condition very good; fol. 1a blank; fol. 63b decorated with a design in red ink; incomplete as it ends abruptly at the beginning of the 8th couplet of; thus only the first part viz. Jinacarita is complete; it ends on fol. 55b; on fol.rb we find Gujarati explanation written above and below the lines of the text, probably in the same hand but the attempt is given up after writing four lines.
Age. Not quite modern.
Jain Education International
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Kalpasūtra (Kappasutta)
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1871-72.
Author.- Bhadrabahusvamin (according to the tradition).
Subject---This work is known as Paryuṣaṇa--kalpa and forms the 8th chapter of Daśāśrutaskandha, one of the chedasūtras already noted. This Kalpasūtra is divided into 3 vācyas (sections) in Samdehaviṣausadhi, Subodhikä etc., as under:--
(1) Jinacarita, (2) Sthaviravali and (3) Sāmācārī.
In Jinacaritra the life of Lord Mahāvīra occupies the major portion. The conception, transference of the embryo and the birth of Mahavira are described in the same way as in Acarängasütra. Then come the 14 dreams, their inter
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I This is narrated "in great detail, with great diffuseness with descriptions in he Kavya style and with exaggerations beyond all measure ". So says Winternitz. Vide "A History of Indian Literature" vol. II, p. 463.
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