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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
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तं दृष्टा समयज्ञेन प्रोक्तं मूकुर्वता भृशं । देव! देव! न युक्तं ते कर्तुं काकस्य चेष्टितं ।। मा च राज्यं शरीरं च यशश्व शशिनिर्मलं । देव! हारय भक्तेन त्वामेकदिनभावना ॥ अन्यच्चेद सतां निंद्यममेध्यं शौचदूषणं ।
GÈNET (? ) ; for continuation see the next Ms. N. B.- For additional information see No. 71.
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उपमितिभवप्रपञ्चाकथा
Upamitibhavaprapañcākathā No. 74
7(b).
1880-81. Size. - 30 in. by 21 in. Extent. — leaf 1792 to leaf 3596 i. e. 181 leaves + 1 - 1 = 181
leaves ; 4 to 7 lines 10 a leaf; 1 20 to 330 letters to a line. Description.- Palm-lcaf; Jaina Devanāgarī characters; big, bold,
legible and elegant hand-writing; this Ms. written in three interdependent columns; thc first line of the first column continues in the 2nd and the 3rd as well ; so the columns are only for show; each column has its borders ruled in four lines in black ink; red chalk used; this work commences with leaf 1998 and is thus a counterpart of the preceding Ms. No. 73 ; numbers for leaves entered twice as in its former part; the third column of leaves 180-186, 215-217 & 226-227 more or less worn out; a part of the first column of leaf 198 gone; in every leaf there are two holes on the whole, once between each of the two columns; leaf 272 repeated; the repeated leaf 272 written on a piece of white paper : its edges worn out; some of the leaves worm-eaten ; half of the 3rd column of leaves 289 & 291-293 gone ; a strip of paper pasted to leaves 290, 294, 2976 & 3286; leaves 296 & 298 torn in several places; the first column of leaves 317-318 badly damaged ; leaves 319 & 320 have their first column dislodged from others ; leaves 336 & 348 damaged throughout; the first half of leaves 342 & 343 worn out; the last column of leaves 319 & 350 practically
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