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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
(568.
THE FIFTH CHEDASUTRA बृहत्कल्पसूत्र
Brhatkalpasūtra (938067')
(Vuddhakappasutta ) No. 568
175.
1881-82. Size.—- 124in. by s} in. Extent.—7 folios ; 17 lines to a page ; 46 letters to a line. Description.-- Country paper very thin and grey ; Jaina Devanāgarī
characters with hers; bold, big, legible and good handwriting ; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink; on these black lines, thick red lines are drawn; space between the pairs coloured yellow ; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin only; the title or a written in the left-hand margin ; unnumbered sides decorated with a diagram in yellow and blue colours in the centre only; the numbered, in each of the two margins, too; the first fol. slightly torn; all the foli. more or less worm-eaten ; condition fair ; fol. 76 blank ; complete ; extent 400 ślokas; this work is known as Kalpasútra (Kappasutta) and Vedakalpasūtra, too; it is divided into six uddeśakas as under :Uddeśaka I
foll. I to 2a
» 2* „ 34 III
IV
s » 66
V VI
66 , 7a. The last line and a portion of the last but one line are written in red ink,
1 This name is mentioned by Dharmasāgara Mahopādhyāya in his Tattvatarangiņi in the following verse :
" तइअंमि अ उद्देसे जं भाणअं वुड्रकप्पचुण्णीए ।
CHHA 3 Teh aalaguuite HITEL 11 78 11"
See fol. 9a of No. _1348..
18884-87.
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