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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
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Description - Country paper thin, tough and white; Jaina Devanāgari
characters with occasional पृष्ठमात्राs; small, quite legible, uniform and very good hand-writing ; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink; red chalk used; fol. numbered in both the margins 3 fol. 1a blank; so is the fol. 1330; in the centre of the numbered and unumbered sides as well, there is some space kept blank so that it forms a design; yellow pigment profusely used on fol. 1326; edges of a few foll. slightly gone; condition on the whole good; complete%3B 14 sargas in all; in the left-hand margins the title is variously written e.g. श्री शत्रुजयमा०, श्रीशत्रुजयमाहाo and शत्रुजयमहा०
Age- Samvat 1686.
Begins -fol. 16
॥६० ॥ अहे । नमो भगवते श्रीयुगादिजिनेंद्राय । ॐ नमो विश्वनाथाय etc. as in No. 714.
Ends -fol. 1320
सूरिः सौगतशेमुखी etc. up to संपूणों (5)यं प्रथः ॥ श्री॥ This is followed by the lines as under :- as in No. 714 छ॥ श्रीरस्तुः ॥ लेषकपाठकयोः
॥६०॥ स्वस्ति श्री ॥ संवत् १६८६ वर्षे भाषाढात् ८७ वर्षे द्वितीयाषाढवदि ८ बुधवासरे रेवतीनक्षत्रे । भट्टारक श्रीजिनेश्वरसूरि तत्पट्टे । श्रीजिनशेषरसूरि
Then follow four or five lines, where the letters have become indistinct owing to yellow pigment, applied and then we have :
॥ श्रीभूयात् ॥ कल्याणं भूयात् ॥ यावचंद्रनभस्तले उदयते सूर्यादिनक्षत्रयुग । यावत्वारिधि मेरु'गिरि तावत् इयं पुस्तकं ॥ नंद्यात् ।।
छ । श्री. छ । श्री॥ N. B. - For additional details see No. 718.
