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500.)
IV. 6 Chedasatras
कल्पसूत्र
Kalpasūtra
761.
No. 500
1899-1915.
Size.--10, in, by 4 in. Extent.-- 93 - 2 = 91 folios ; S lines to a page ; 27 letters to a line.
Description.- Country paper thin and greyish; Jaina Devanagari
characters with TATTS; very big, quite legible, uniform and elegant hand-writing; this Ms. presents an appearance as if the work is written in two distinct columns ; but, really it is not so, since the lines of the first column extend to the second; each column has its borders ruled in four lines; space between the pairs coloured red; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin only; unnumbered sides have mostly a small disc in red colour in the centre only; the numbered,
in the margins, too; fol. 1a blank except that the title T OTEFTFE is written on it; this Ms. seems to be exposed to fire, as some portions at times indicate ; strips of paper pasted to foll. 396, 446, 62a etc. ; fol. 9ist slightly torn ; edges of fol. 93rd damaged; condition tolerably good; foll. 55 and 56 missing ; otherwise complete; extent 1216 slokas : this Ms. contains 52 illustrations which the Jainas get a chance to sce during thc paryușana-parvan.
These illustrations can be roughly named ' as under:(1) Tirthamkara Mahāvīra
fol. ( 2 ) Gaņadhara Gautamasvämin (3) 14 dreams seen by Devänanda
Indrasabha (5) Sakrastava (6) Indra and Hariņagameşin (7) Garbhaharana (8) Garbhasainkramana (9) 14 dreams seen by Trišala (10) Mallayuddha
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1 They are mostly named in the Ms, itsell, but these names differ at times from those viven here.
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