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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
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सुदर्शनचरित्र
Sudarsanacaritra
1174 No. 840
1891-95 Size - 114 in. by 5} in. Extent - 53-6+2=49 folios; 9 lipes to a page ; 32 letters to a line. Description - Country paper thin, rough tough and whitish; Jaina
Devanāgari characters; big, quite legible, uniform and good hand-writing; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink; red chalk used to mark out the numbering of the verses and puspikās; foll, numbered in both the margins; fol. 1a blank; so are foll. 33a, 340, 350, 36 and 37a blank; but the continuity is maintained; fol. 530 too blank; fol, 16 repeated twice; the first fol. repeated written in comparatively smaller hand; in the left-hand margins, the title is written a yellow pigment used for making corrections; strips of paper pasted to fol. 536; condition on the whole good; foll. 2 to 6 missing; so incomplete; eight paricchedas in all; the extent of each of them is as under :Pariccheda I foll. 16 to 60 (?)
66 (?) to 11a III
110 to 17a IV
170 to 216 V
216 to 286 VI
280 to 382 VI
38a to 440 VIII
440 to 530 Black ink applied for making redundant letters illegible;
vide foll. 8a;, 13a and 146. Age - Not quite modern. Author - Sakalakirti. Subject - Life of Sudarśana Śreşthin in Sanskrit verses. Begins — fol. 10 &&011
af f aa: 11 नमः श्रीवर्द्धमानाय धर्मतीर्थप्रवर्तिने त्रिजगत्स्वामिनेऽनंतशर्मणे विश्वबांधवे १
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