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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
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Reference. The text together with the commentary and Upădhyaya Labhi Gani's tippanikä on this commentary is published as No. 11 by "Shri Jin Duttsuri Prachin Pustakoddhar Fund " in A. D. 1920.
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चैत्यवन्दन कुलक fagíaviga
No. 1216
Caityavandanakulaka with vivṛti
Size.-13 in. by 23 in.
Extent. 1702 = 168 leaves; 4 to 6 lines to a leaf; 45 letters to a line.
Description.
19.
1880-81.
Palm-leaf thick, durable and greyish; Jaina Devanagari characters with gears; big, legible, uniform and and very good hand-writing; this Ms. presents an appearance of the work having been divided into two columns; but, really it is not so; for, lines of the first column are continued to the second; borders of each of the columns ruled in four lines in black ink; red chalk used; leaves numbered in both the margins; in the right hand one as fa, af, u, etc., the peculiarity being that for numbers consisting of two and three digits only the letters are used for the notational place; otherwise we have 1, 2 etc. up to 9. e.g., etc. up to the 1st leaf missing; so is the leaf
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152; this Ms. contains the text as well as its commentary; the verse beginning with या देवे देवताबुद्धिः is quoted on leaf 32 and a Prakrit passage on leaf 39; leaves 90b and 91a smutty some of the leaves slightly worm-eaten; condtion on the whole good; both the text and its comentary incomplete; on leaf 2a which is hardly legible on account of the ink having faded, we have a nice illustration of a Jaina saint; it is preceded by three extra leaves; on the one just preceding it we have some portion written; the
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