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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
नन्दी सूत्र ( नंदीसुत्त )
No. 608
Size.-- 10 in. by 4 in.
Extent. 46 folios; 9 lines to a page; 36 letters to a line.
Description. Country paper thin and greyish; Jaina Devanagari characters with as; bold, very big, quite legible and elegant hand-writing; borders ruled in three thick lines in red ink; foll. 1a and 46 blank; a portion of fol. 1b kept blank most probably with a view to decorate it with an illustation; yellow pigment used; numbers for foll. entered twice on one and the same page but in two different margins; in the right-hand margin as ?, etc., and in the left-hand one asa, fa, è, q, ‡ etc.;' some of the foll. ? slightly worm-eaten; condition tolerably good; complete. This Ms. includes Bṛhannandi useful for Yogakriya. This work, too, is published in the Agamodaya Samiti Series at the end of Nandisutra (pp. 253 and 254a). Age. Samvat 1648.
V. 2 CULIKASUTRAS
THE FIRST CULIKĀSUTRA
No.- 749 1899-1915
Author. Devarddhi Gani also known as Devavācaka, pupil of Duşa Guni. See No. 629. Jarl Charpentier makes the following observation in his introduction (p. 18) to Uttaradhyayanasutra :—
After all, I think that the authorship of Devarddhi is not
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I It seems that some believe that only palm-leaf Mss. can have letternumerals; but it is not so as can be seen from this paper Ms. I can point out at least two more such paper Mss. where there are letter-numerals. They are
Nandisutra
(Nandisutta)
756.
1899-1915.
1275
(Nalayana) and No.1884-87 (Kumarapalaprabhandha) respectively.
Furthermore it may be mentioned that only a majority of palm-leaf Mss. contains letter-numerals. For No. 591 has no letter-numerals, though it is a palmleaf Ms. See p. 263.
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