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विशेषावश्यकभाष्य (विसेसावस्सयभास )
No. 1103
Jaina Literature and Philosophy
[ 1103.
Viseṣāvasyakabhāṣya (Visesavassayabhāsa)
Size.-9 in. by 4 in.
Extent. 122 + 2 = 124 folios; 15 lines to a page; 45 letters to a line.
Description. Country paper thin and greyish; Devanagari characters with gears; small, bold, clear and good handwriting; borders ruled in four lines in black ink; red chalk used; yellow pigment, too, though very rarely; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin; fol. 1a blank; marginal notes on fol. 1; fol. 30 repeated; the last but one line of the last fol. thrice scratched with black ink; edges of the last three foll. and those of the first fol. partly worn out; condition very fair; complete.
Age. Samvat 1458.
Author.
1256.
1887-91.
Jinabhadra Gani Kṣamäśramaņa. He is said to have died in Vira Samvat I115. He is the author of the following works:
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(i) Sanskrit commentary of Viseṣāvaśyakabhāṣya, (ii) Bṛhatsangrahani, (iii) Kṣetrasamāsa, (iv) Višeṣaṇavati, (v) Dhyanaśataka, (vi) Jitakalpa and (vii) Niśithabhāṣya. The authorship of the last work is somewhat doubtful. P. 468.
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Subject. This important work is a metrical commentry in Prakrit elucidating Bhadrabāhusvamin's niryukti on Sāmāyikadhyayana, a part of Avaśyakasūtra. Vasavadatta and Tarangavati are alluded to in this work. That is what strikes me at present.
Begins. - fol. rb नमः श्रुतदेवतायै ॥
bruarणपणामो वोच्छं चर(ण) गुणसंगहं सयलं । आवस्याणुओगं गुरुवएसानुसारेणं ॥ १ etc.
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