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JAINA LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY
A. AGAMIKA LITERATURE
V. 4 MULASUTRAS!
THE FIRST MULASUTRA
उत्तराध्ययनसूत्र (377TYTUTETI)
Uttarādbyayanasūtra (Uttarajjhayaņasutta )
159. 1871-72.
No. 644
Size.-- 12 in. by 43 in.
Extent.— 73 folios; 11 lines to a page ; 46 letters to a line. Description.-- Country paper thin and white; Jaina Devanagari
characters with occasional Tanas; big, fairly legible, uniform and elegant hand-writing ; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink; the space between these pairs coloured red; numbers for foll. written in the right-hand margin ; foll. ja and 736 blank ; fol. rb decorated with a beautiful illustration of a samavasarana with a Tirthamkara in the centre ; unnumbered sides have a square in
1 For the interpretation of this word mülasūtra and the question of the propriety of the word sütra according to Jarl Charpentier see his introduction (p. 32) to his edition of The Uttaràdhvayanasutra ".
2. That the meaning of the word ullam occurring in this title cannot meaa "best" though so suggested in the commentary on Nandisutra, but it should mean " latter", is the opinion expressed by Charpentier in his introduction (Þ. 33) to Utrayadhvavanasutta
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