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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
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Description. Country paper rough, thin and greyish; Devanagari characters with gears; this is a farret Ms., containing the text and its commentary, the former written in a somewhat bigger hand; clear and good hand-writing; the space for the text not reserved; red chalk and white paste used, the latter profusely; foll. numbered in both the margins; both the sides of the foll. have three discs in red colour, one in the centre and two in the margins; a piece of paper of the size of a fol. pasted to fol. 1a; fol. 339b decorated with a design in three colours; strips of paper pasted to several foll. ; corners of foll. 2 to 4 slightly worn out; condition very fair; diagrams drawn on foll. 6b, 7 etc.; fol. 74th repeated; complete; extent of the text 7787 slokas; that of the commentary 15000 slokas.
Pretty old.
200
Age
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Author of the commentary. - Malayagiri Sūri.
Subject. The text in Prakrit together with its commentary in
Sanskrit.
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Begins. (text) fol. 1b
af
Terror etc., as in No. 217.
~ ( com. ) fol. r ॐ नमः सर्वज्ञाय | aufa anque etc., as in No. 219.
Ends.—– ( text ) fol. 3386 जातिजरामरण etc., up to सुहं पत्ता as in No. 214 followed by the lines as under:
इति पण्णवणाए भगवईए समुग्धायपदं छत्तीसइमं सम्मत्तं । छ । प्रत्यक्षरगणनया अनुष्टंपत्थ ( ष्टुपूच्छं ) दस ( सा ) मानमिदं । छ । ग्रंथाग्रं । ७७८७ ॥ शुभं भवतु ॥ कल्याणमस्तु ॥ छ ॥ छ ॥ — ( com. ) fol. 3394 संति (त) स्तिष्ठति etc, up to समर्थिता as in No. 220. Then we have:
ग्रंथाग्रं १५००० छ शुभं भवतु etc.
