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VI. 11 Angas
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THE SIXTH ANGA
ज्ञाताधर्मकथासूत्र (OTTOTUATE a )
Jñātādharmakathāvgasūtra ( Nāyādhammakahangasutta )
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No. 124
1869-70.
Size.- 1o in, by 48 in. Extent.-- 155 folios ; 13 lines to a page ; 44 letters to a line. Description. Country paper thick and greyish ; Devanagari chara
cters with AES; big, legible and good hand-writing : ink not faded; borders ruled in four lines in black ink; fol. 1* blank; red chalk used; yellow pigment, too ; numbers of foll. entered twice on one and the same side but in different margins; foll. 147 to 152 have their margins slightly worm-eaten ; edges of the 1s5th ( last ) fol. somewhat damaged ; a strip of paper pasted to it; condi
tion on the whole good ; complete ; extent 5500 ślokas. Age.- Old. Author.- Sudharmasvāmin according to the Jaina tradition. Subject. This is the sixth anga. It is divided into two parts
known as śrutaskandha. The former has 19 subdivisions called adhyayanas and the latter, 1o, styled as vargas. This entire work deals with narratives having a moral and religious purpose behind it. These narratives are free from sectarian spirit and are useful to the persons of any and every school of thought. Such a remark is made by Dattātreya Bālakrishna Kālelkar in his foreword to the Gujarati translation of this work published in the Puñjābhai Jaina Granthamālā No, 3, 1931, Ahmedabad. This work is variously named e. g. Jñātadharmakathā, jñātņdharmakatha and Nathadharmakathā; the last two being the names
according to the Digambaras. Begins.--- fol. ih straTU A: 11
तेणं कालेणं तेणं समएणं चपा नाम नयरी डोत्था । ममी । सीसे ण
sorg orig afget etc. 15 [ J. L. P. ]
