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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
1 678.
उत्तराध्ययनसूत्र
Uttarādhyayanasūtra बालावबोध तथा कथा सहित
with bālāvabodha and kathās No. 678
8.
1869-70. Size.- 1o, in. by 4; in. Extent.- 254-3=251 folios; Is lines to a page; 31 to 50 letters
to a line. Description. - Country paper rough, white and not very thin
Jaina Devanāgari characters; bold, big, uniform, legible and elegant hand-writing ; borders ruled in four lines in red ink, and edges, in two; this Ms. contains the text, its explanation in Gujarāti and narrations in Sanskrit illustrating the prescribed rules; this Ms. seems to be incomplete ; for, the text contains only 22 adhyayanas and the illustrations up to the 23rd ; the 24th adhyayana requires no illustrations and the 25th has only one small illustration needed ; later on, no stories are to be found so far as the remaining adhyayanas are concerned ; that may be the reason why this work ends here ; numbers for foll, written in two different margins on one and the same side ; foll. 113 to ris missing; fol. 1276 kept blank; fol. 6 slightly
torn; fol. 245 torn; condition fair. Age.- Not quite modern. Subject.— Stories illustrating the gāthas of Uttaradhyayanasútra
along with a Gujarātī explanation of these gāthas. Begins.- ( text ) fol. 24 THT atacante : 11
TTT Pacque as in No. 644. » - (bālāvabodha ) fol. 15 TEHT FA: 11
FORT stagrali etc., as in No. 684. This first verse is followed by the lines as under :
उत्तराध्ययन कहतां स्यो अर्थ श्रीमहावीरनइं धारइ ॥ आचारंग Hufe E TRTET Huat etc.
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