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Jaina Literature and Philosopliy
1683.
शिष्यहिता
Sisyahită (TITETUTTHET
( l'ttarădhyayanasūtraबृहवृत्ति)
Drhaulvrtti) No. 683
258.
1883-84. Size.- 11 in. by 42 in. Extent.— 392 + 3 -- 3 = 392 folios : 15 lines to a page ; 53 letters
to a line. Description.---Country paper thin, rough and greyish ; Jaina Deva
nāgarī characters with yeahS; sufficiently big, quite legible and elegant hand-writing ; borders ruled in four lines in black ink; red chalk used; numbers for foll. entered only once, and that, too in the right-hand margin ; foll. 1 to 8 numbered twice in the right-hand margin ; foll. 18, 26 and 29 repeated; foll. 53 to 56 bracketed together ; a piece of paper of the size of a fol. pasted to fol. 18 ; fol. Ia blank; fol. 392 equally so, except that the title 3 TIETT(a)aaaqzia: and its extent written on it; edges of the first and the last foll. slightly worn out; condition on the whole very good; almost half the portion of fol. 1 blank; it appears that the scribe wanted to decorate it with an illestration propably of a Tirthaikara ; complete ; extent 18000
ślokas; the entire work is divided into 36 sections. Age.-- Saṁvat 1667. Author.-- Sănti Sūti, pupil of Sarvadeva of the Thārapadra gaccha.
For his life see Prabhāvakacaritra (pp. 216-224) As stated therein (pp. 236-237 )2 he revised Tilakamañjarī. Hic attained svarga in Samvat 1096. See C. M. Duff's " The
Chronology of India” (p. 120), Westminster, 1899. Subject.- A very big commentary explaining Uttarādhyayanasutra
and its niryukti. The nihnava-vāda is very beautifully treated here. Its treatment seems to surpass even the ex
position given in the Višeşāvaşyaka-bbāsya. Prior to the I See the introduction (pp. 79-81 ) of the Gujarăti translation of Prablāvakacaritra.
2 Sec Prabhāvakacaritra (p. ) v. 201-202.
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