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272 Jaina Literature and Philosophy
[894. Description.- Country paper thin, rough and white; Devanāgari
characters with occasional gratis ; big, legible and tolerably good hand-writing ; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink ; red chalk used; foll. mostly numbered in the right-hand margin only; fol. 203 repeated; so is the fol. 211; a piece of paper of the size of a fol. pasted to foll. ra and 3410; this Ms. does not seem to contain the complete text; only the ist verse can be easily noticed ;' Kathākośa complete ; some of the foll. slightly worm-eaten ; condition
good. Age... Old. Commentator.- Subhasila, pupil of Munisundara Suri of the Tapā
gaccha. He is an author of the works noted on p. 259. Furthermore, according to Jaina Granthāvali etc. ? he has composed Pañcāstiprabodhasambandha, Dānādikathā ( 1150 ślokas in extent ), Puṇyasārakathā ( 1311 verses ), Silavatikathă 988 verses ), Snātrapañcāśikākathā, Bhaktămaramā. hätmya, Uņādināmamālā and Pañcavargasaṁgraha.
For other details see No. 888. Kathākośa. Explanation in Sanskrit of Bharateśvara-Bahubalisvä
dhyāya along with about 100 narratives. These narratives depict lives of the male and female personages referred to in Bharateśvara-Bahubali-svādhāya and also those of s
more. See p. 257. Begins.— (text) fol. 1b
HTÈAT algazi etc. ( in the margin ) „ — (com. ) fol. 16 FH: FERETTI
gugi aTTENTET etc. as in No. 888. Ends.-(com. ) fol. 340b3ngierrstärrei etc. up to Patut AETATE
Frekre Frigof: as in No. 889. N. B.--- For other details see No. 888.
1 Others are probably not given. They seem to be alluded to, by the word CHIE.
2 See "upakrama '(p. 6a) of the 2nd part of Sri Bharateśvara-Bahubalivrtti (D. L. J. P. F. Series, No. 87).
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