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Jaina Literature and Pliilosophy 1539. Description.- Country paper thin, rough and greyish; Jaina
Devanagari characters with occasional पृष्ठमात्राs; small, legible and tolerably good hand-writing ; borders ruled in four lines in black ink ; space between the pairs coloured yellow; foll. numbered in both the margins ; numbering is not continuous; for, there are 3 sets : Ist containing 26 foll. , the 2nd 38 and the third 2I - I i.e. 20, since:the first fol. of this set is missing ; the fol. 38b blank ; unnumbered sides have a small design in yellow and blue colours in the centre only; the numbered, in each of the two margins, too; yellow pigment used while making corrections; a portion of the first fol. worn out; this Ms. contains some portion of Kalpasútra along with its explanation in Gujarāti; the text begins with the 57th sūtra ; edges of some of the foll. slightly gone ; condition tolerably fair.
Age.- Old.
Author of the commentary.- A Jaina saint of the Kharatara gaccha. Subject. - The six kalyanakas of Lord Mahavira seem to be ex
pounded elsewhere ; for, this Ms. begins abruptly. Begins.- ( text ) fol. 1" तए ण सिद्धत्थे खत्तिए चूसकालसमयसि कोडुंबिय
पुरिसे सहावेइ २त्ता एवं वयासी ५७ etc. ,, -- (com.) fol. I* ॥ ६ ॥
नमः श्रीवर्द्धमानाय । श्रीमते च सुधर्मणे सर्वानुयोगद्धेभ्यो वाण्यै सर्वविदस्तथा ।१।' अज्ञानतिमिरांधानां ज्ञानांजनशलाकया नेत्रमुन्मीलितं येन तस्मै श्रीगुरवे नमः ॥२३ सूरिमु(द )द्योतनं वंदे वर्द्धमानं जिनेश्वरं
जिनचंद्रप्रभुं भक्त्या(5)भयदेवमहं स्तुवे ॥ ३ श्रीजिनवल्लभजिनदत्तसूरिजिनचंद्रजिनपतियतींद्राः ।
लम्यो(?) जिनेश्वराजिनप्रं'......जिनचंद्रगुरवः स्युः । ४ 1-2 The प्रतीकs of these two verses are given in No. 520. See p. 129. 3 Letters are gone.
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