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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
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Description. - Country paper thin, tough and white; Jaina Deva.
någari characters with occasional geria; small, quite legible, uniform and very good hand-writing ; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink; red chalk rarely used; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin ; there is some space kept blank in the centre of the numbered and the unnumbered sides as well so that it forms a design ; foll, 1-87 missing : so this Ms. begins abruptly with the portion of the fifth sarga of the first parvan ;' it however, goes up to the end of the 13th canto of the roth parvan ; the numbers of the sargas in each of the ten parvans are as under :
6, 6, 8, 7, S, 8, 13, 12, 4 & 13.
In all there are 82 cantos, 15
This Ms. contains an additional work viz. aitistega which begins on fol. 6468 and ends on fol. 715.
Extents of the first and the last parvans are 5017 &
5250 šlokas respectively. Age.- Not modern. 2Author.- 'Kalikalasarvajña' Hemacandra Súri. For a list of his
works see B. B. R. A. S. (Vols. III-IV p. 438 ) and
DCGCM ( Vol. XVII, pt. 4, pp. 154-156 ). Subject.- A biography of 163 towering personalities : 124 Tirthan.
karas, 12 Sovereigns ( Cakravartins ), 9 Vāsudevas, 9 Balarāmas and 9 Prativasudevas. The contents of the ten parvans are as under :
Parvan I Life of Rşabha and that of Bharata.
„ II Ajita , , , Sagara. » III Lives of Sambhava to Sitala i, e. to say
those of 8 Tirthařkaras : » IV Lives of s Tirthankaras, 2 Cakravartins,
s Väsudevas and 5 Balaramas.
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1 The first parvan is lacking in the first four sargas and a portion of
the fifth. 1 2 Tirthankara: 16-18 are Cakravartine, too. They are counted separately; otherwise the dumber will be 60.
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