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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
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Extent - 53-1-1=51 folios; 15 lines to a page; 38 letters to a line. Description - Country paper thin, tough and whitish; Jaina Deva
nāgari characters with occasional ghS; sufficiently big, quite legible, uniform and good hand-writing ; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink; in the interlinear space foll. are numbered in the right-hand margin; red chalk used; in the centre of the numbered and unnumbered sides as well, there is some space kept blank, so that it forms a design; edges of some of the foll. slightly gone; condition on the whole good; yellow pigment used for making corrections ; foll. 14 and 30 missing; otherwise complete; nine cantos in all; the extent of each of them is as under :Canto I foll. 10 to 7a II , 70 to 140 (?)
14a (?) 190
190 to 250 V
250 to 30a (?) VI
30a (?) to 360 VII
360 to 400 VIII
400 to 466 IX
460 to 536 For examples of antarlāpika, bahirlāpika, luptamadhayā
kşarā etc. Author - Jayakaliśa, pupil of Jayaratna Sūri. Subject - Story of king Śripāla in Sanskrit poetry. Begins — fol. 1a
11 3 11 7#: sitATAIFAT 11 श्रीमान् श्रियं दिशमु(तु ) नाभिभवो हरिण्य - शैलाधिराज इव गैरककांतकांतिः । शश्वत्सुधासनविताननिषेवितां श्रितं
: agi aalaaleaaeg AT: 11 etc. Ends - fol. 526
asge: Tecrafeteria z es: 3104RT TIA: 1 किंचिच्छास्त्रप्रवीणो जयकलिशगुरु स्वेष्टदवेप्रसादात् ।
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