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591.1
Jitakalpasatra
JĪTAKALPASŪTRA
जीतकल्पसूत्र (जीयकप्पत्त )
No. 591
Size. 13 in. by 2 in.
Extent. 18+ I = 19 leaves; 5 lines to a leaf; 40 to 45 letters to a line.
Description.
263
Jitakalpasūtra (Jiyakappasutta) 75 (a).
1880-81.
Palm-leaf thin, very durable and greyish; Jaina Devanagari characters with years; sufficiently big, clear, uniform and good hand-writing; this Ms. presents an appearance as if the work is divided into two columns; but, really speaking it is not so, since lines of the first column extend to the second; borders of each of the columns ruled in six lines in black ink; there is a hole in the space between the two columns; red chalk used to bring into prominence the numbering for verses; leaves numbered in both the margins, but in numbers only as 2, etc; leaf 1 blank; several leaves slightly worm-eaten; condition tolerably good; this work ends on leaf 122; complete; this Ms. contains in addition the two works as under :
(1) श्रावकप्रायश्वित्त
leaves 12 to 13b.
(2) जीतकल्प चूर्णिगतसिद्धत्थेत्यादिविवरण, 13b to 18b. There is one extra blank leaf at the end. This Ms. is placed between two wooden boards.
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Age.- Fairly old.
Author.--- Jinabhadra Gani Kṣamāśramaņa, author of Viseṣāvaśyakabhāṣya and its svopajña commentary, Viseṣaṇavati and Bṛhatkṣetrasamäsa'. He was alive according to the tradition in or about Vira Samvat 1115 i. e. the Vikrama Samvat 645.
I
In this work I, 69 ff. word-symbols have been used with the left to right arrangement to express numbers. See "History of Hindu Mathematics " pt I, p. 61.
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