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भगवतीसूत्र
No. 88
Jaina Literature and Philosophy
[ 88:
Bhagavatisūtra
447. 1882-83.
Size. 11 in. by 43 in.
Extent.--372--2=370 folios; 13 lines to a page; 56 letters to a line. Description.-Country paper very thin and greyish; Devanagari characters with gears; big, quite legible and good handwriting; borders ruled in four lines in black ink; space between the pairs coloured red; foll. numbered only once; the unnumbered sides having a disc in the centre only, the numbered, in the margins, too; red chalk used; several foll. awfully damaged so much so that even a part of the margin where the number' of the fol. is entered is gone in the case of 12 foll. preceding the 15th; the 1st and the 4th foll. are even lost; the original pagination of foll. 363 to 372 gone; even some foll. torn; the Ms. requires to be very carefully handled, condition being rather poor; marginal notes occasionally written in Gujarati almost complete; extent 15800 slokas.
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Age. Samvat 1570.
Begins.fol. 2" अणगारे गोयमसगोत्तेणं सतुस्सेहे समचउरंस ( सं ) ठाणसंटिए etc. Ends. -- fol. 3724 पंचेदिताणं बारस etc., up to उद्दिसिज्जइ practically as in No. 87 followed by the lines as under:
वियसित अरविंदकरा नासिततिमिरा सुताहिया देवी ctc., ( 3720 ) सुयदेवाए निच्च पयओ पणमामि चरणजुगं ॥ छ ॥ etc. ग्रंथाग्रं १५८०० ॥ छ ॥ संवत् १५७० वर्षे आषाढसुदि ३ रवौ 'नागर 'ज्ञातीयत्रवाडी जगा लिषितं ॥
छ etc.
Dr. W. Schubring has numbered them with black lead-pencil below the disc in the middle of the numbered sides.
