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JAINA LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY
VOLUME XIX SECTION II: NARRATIVES
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PART 1
(a) The Śvetambara Works अगडदत्तचतुष्पदी
Agadadattacatuspadi (STITE TAINTATE )
( Agadadattacopāi)
605 ( a ). No. 1
1992-95. Size.— 104 in. by 4 in. Extent. — 14 folios ; 13 lines to a page ; 42 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper not very thick and grey in colour ;
Jaina Devanagari characters with TAITTS; bold, quite legible, elegant and uniform hand-writing ; borders doubly ruled in red ink; upper edges of all the foll. eaten away by white ants in a number of places though slightly; condition tolerably good; pauses marked vertically in red ink; yellow pigment used more often in the end than in the beginning ; foll. numbered as usual ; complete ; composed in Samvat 1625 in Viramapura; this Ms. contains an additional work named as partaalla; it begins and ends
on fol. 146. Age.- Samyat 1653. Author.- Vacaka Kusalalabha, pupil of Abhayadharma. His other
works are :
(1) netaraan KTA (2) Parieta-ISTRITA-NAT: V. S. 1621..
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