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महानिशीथसूत्र ( महानिसीहसुत्त )
Adhyayana
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No. 457
Size. 13 in. by 5 in.
Extent. 56 folios; 17 lines to a page; 66 letters to a line.
Description.
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Country paper thin and grey; Devanagari characters with Taras; sufficiently big, legible, uniform and elegant hand-writing; borders ruled in four lines in black ink; red chalk used; fol. 1a blank; so is the fol. 566; several foll. more or less worm-eaten; strips of paper pasted to foll. 1a and 56b; foll. 1 to 3 partly torn; condition very fair; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin only; complete; extent 4544 ślokas. This work consists of 8 adhya
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the extent of each of which is as under :
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II. 6 Chedasutras
Age. Pretty old.
Subject.
THE SECOND CHEDASUTRA
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VII
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This is one of the six chedasútras. It is written in Prakrit. A three-fold division referred to in the beginning is not to be found. There are specific titles for the 1st, 2nd, 5th and 6th adhyayanas. They indicate the subjectmatter. The 3rd and the 4th adhyayanas treat of kusila. In
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