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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
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Description. – Palm- leaf thin, durable and greyish ; Devanāgari
characters with gearsts; sufficiently big, legible, uniform and good hand-writing ; this Ms. presents an appearance of the work having been written in three separate columns; but, really it is not so, since the lines are continuous; borders of each of the columns ruled mostly in four lines in black ink ; leaves numbered in both the margins ; in the right-- hand margin as 105, 106 etc.; leaves 116 etc. as 1, 2 also; in the left--hand margin in letters as in other palmleaf Mss. ; this Ms. starts with leaf numbered as 105; over and above the first ten uddeśakas of Niśithasūtra, it contains Niśīthacūrņi commencing on leaf 1166 and ending on leaf 343b; this work is separately numbered in the Government collections of Mss. ; some leaves at the end seem to be written in a different hand and are not quite legible, since ink has faded; even leaves 1054, 1056 and 106 are less legible for the same reason ; leaves 105 to 115 are tied down in a reverse order i. e. to say as 115, 114 etc., by means of strings passing through two holes ; one of these holes is in the space between the ist and the 2nd columns, and the other, between the 2nd and the 3rd; leaf 116a blank; one extra blank leaf in the beginning and one in the end; edges of some of the leaves slightly worn
out; condition on the whole good. Age.-- Fairly old. Begins.--- fol. 1056 FA: starfarreri
À PTFE FUFFÀ FIT etc. Ends.-- fol. IIFb छम्मग्गं वा पडिपहं वा गच्छति गच्छत वा सातिज्जति जे
Forestur afara satu syux......'AFTÈ THAT SEHR FERTIT IN
N. B.- For further particulars see No. 434.
1. Letters are illegible, for, ink has faded.
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