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Jaina Literature and Philnsophy
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Vastupāla-prabandha
वस्तुपालप्रबन्ध No. 659
171 1872-73
Size — 101 in. by 4} in.
Extent — 80 folios; 17 lines to a page; 50 letters to a line.
Description - Country paper thin, tough and white; Jain Devanāgari
characters with frequent galTS; small, quite legible, fairly uniform and very good hand-wrirting; borders ruled in three lines in red ink; red chalk used; foll. numbered in the right. band margin; some portions of the first few foll, are not quile legible as they are blurred; in the centre of the numbered and unmunbered sides as well, there is some space kept blank so that it forms a design, fol. 800 blank; eages of the first and last foll, slightly gone; condition on the whole good; complete; 8 prastāvas in all; the extent of each of then is as under :
24a
Prastāva I foll. la to 5a. II
5a , 16a III
162 24a IV
362 V , 360
482 VI
48a 59a VII , 59a
660
80a foll. 520-600 written in very small hand-writing.
This work is composed in V. S. 1497.
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Author — Jinaharşa Gani. pupil of Jayacandra Sūri of the Tapāgaccha Subject - Life of Vastupāla, a minister and that of his brother Tejapāla,
a minister in Sanskrit. Begins - fol ga
॥६० ॥ श्रीमानहन् शिवः स्वामी । नाभिभूः पुरुषोत्तमः । पुष्णातु भक्तिनिष्ठानां । श्रियं सर्वार्थदायिनी ॥ १ सार्वाः सर्वेऽजितस्वामिप्रमुखा सुखसंततिं 57910 garan agert gefsta: 11 etc.
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