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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
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भगवतीसूत्रवृत्ति
Bhagavatīsūtiavetti
307. No. 92
A 1882-83. Size.—124 in. by 4g in. Extent.—277+2=279 folios; 15 lines to a page; 68 letters to a line. Description.-Country paper thick, grey and durable ; Devanagari
characters with पृष्ठमात्राs; quite bold, perfectly legible, uniform and exceedingly beautiful hand-writing; borders ruled in four lines in black ink, the intervening space between the pairs coloured red ; fol. I blank; fol. I decorated with a beautiful picture of a Jaina Tirthankara, probably Lord Mahāvira ; red chalk and yellow pigment used; the unnumbered sides have in the centre a small disc in red ink, the numbered having over and above this, two more, one in each margin%3B a piece of paper almost of half the size as the fol. pasted to the first fol. ; the edges of the first three foll. slightly worn out; condition on the whole good ; foll. I3 and 66 repeated ; स्थापनाs of परमाणुs on foll. 248th and 249th; this Ms. contains the tales of the text; complete ; extent
18616 slokas. Age.-Samvat 1516. Author.-Abhayadeva Suri, pupil of Jinesvara Süri and Buddhi
sāgara Süri. Subject.-A Sanskrit commentary to Bhagavatisūtra. This is styled
as vivaraņa, višeşavịtti and vịtti. It is composed in Samvat 1128, with the help of Yasascandra Gani, and is revised by
Drona Suri. Begins.--fol. 1 ॐ नमो जिनाय ॥
सर्वज्ञमीश्वरमनंतमसंगगम्यं
सायिमस्मरमनीशमनहामिद्धं । सिद्धं शिवं शिवकरं करणव्यपेतं
श्रीमज्जिनं जितरिपुं प्रयतः प्रणौमि ॥१॥ नत्वा श्रीवर्द्धमानाय श्रीमते च सुधर्मणे । सर्वानुयोगवृद्धेभ्यो बा(वाण्यै सर्वविदस्तथा ॥२॥ .. एतट्टीकाचूर्णी जीवाभिगमादित्तिलेशांश्च ।। संयोज्य पंचमांगं विवृणोमि विशेषतः किंचित् ॥३॥ ....
