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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
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कल्पान्तर्वाच्य
Kalpāntarvācya ( कल्पसमर्थन)
(Kalpasamarthana )
289. No. 554
A. 1883-84 Size.-- Iog in. by 4g in. Extent.-- 18 folios ; 17 lines to a page ; 54 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper thin, rough and greyish ; Jaina Deva
nagari characters with पृष्ठमात्राs; small, uniform, legible and elegant hand-writing; borders ruled in four !ines in black ink; red chalk and yellow pigment used; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin only; fol. 18b blank except that कल्पसमर्थनम् etc. written on it; edges of some of the foll.
slightly damaged ; condition on the whole good ; completc. Age.--- Pretty old. Author.---- Not mentioned. Subject.--- In the beginning we find 40 verses in Prakrit and then a
reference that Kalpasūtra forms a part of the Sth chapter of Daśāśrutaskandha. This is followed by a reference to 14 Purvas. Then we find the Ist narrative viz. नागकेतुकथा,
the last being that of a vipra. Begins.- fol. I ए ६0 ॥ नमः श्रीवर्द्धमानाय ॥
पुरिमचरिमाण कप्पो etc. Ends.-- fol. 18a यथा स विप्रः किल तीव्रकोपात्
कृच्छरशोध्यो बहिरेवे चक्रे । कोपं न या पर्वदिने(ड)पि जह्यात्
स संघबाह्यो जिनवाक्यमेतत् ॥८॥ इति श्रीकल्पांतराश्रितं किंचिदलेखीति ॥ छ etc.
पुरिमचर(रि)माण गाथा etc., practically up to मिथ्या as in No. 549 followed by the lines as under:
दुक(क)ति ८ श्रीकालिकाचार्यकथा ॥ ९॥ इति श्रीकल्पसमर्थनं ॥ श्रीरस्तु लेखकस्य ।। etce
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