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III. 4 Mülasutras
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Description.- Palm-leaf thin and greyish; Devarāgari characters
with पृष्टमात्राs; sufficiently big, legible and very good hand-writing; leaves 22 to II are mostly written in a smaller hand ; this Ms. presents an appearance of the work having been written in three separate columns, but really it is not so, since the lines are continuous ; borders of cach of the columns neatly ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink ; the space between these pairs coloured red; red chalk used; there are two holes in each leaf in the interspaces between the columns ; leaves numbered in both the margins : in the right-hand margin as usual ; in the left-hand one as श्री, ३, एक etc ; the Ist leaf missing ; almost every leaf has
its edges slightly worn out ; leaves i to 21 are in a fragmentary condition ; the following few leaves worm-eaten ; condition poor; the Ms. placed between two wooden boards; one extra blank leaf in the beginning; colophon
composed by Aśāditya Age.- Fairly old. Author.-- Maladhārin Hemacandra Suri. For details see p. 46o. Subject.-- A Sanskrit commentary elucidating Viścșăvasyaka
bhāsya. It is styled as Sisyahita and Brhadvrtti as well. Begins.- leaf 2* टादिवस्तुवदिति । एवं प्रस्तुतनामस्थापनाद्रव्यायुद्देशानामपि :
त्यादि भेदानेदो यो etc. अथ समासोदेश विवक्षुराह । संखेवा इत्यादि etc. Fnds.-leaf 345 भवतीति चत्वारिंशद्दाथार्थः ॥ छ । ७९९ पूर्व चाद्यवसानपर्यंत
व्याख्यातानां गाथानां २८२३ उभयं भाष्यगाथानां ३६२२ शेषाणि चतुर्दशा. धिकसप्तशतानि अतिदेशेनैव गतानि न तु व्याख्यातानि अतो नेह गणितानि ॥ छ । इत्येषा शिष्यहिता नाम विशेषावश्यकवृत्तिः परिसमाप्ता ॥ छ ।।
यस्याद्य पूगक्षघ(?)मेत्य शेषा
व्यानादपीहान्यभवेऽपि जातः । रवरिवच्छंतभरः प्रतापात्
भवः प्रदेयाद्दषभो जिनः शं ॥१॥
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