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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
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THE FIFTH UPANGA
सूर्यप्रज्ञाप्त (सूरियपण्णत्ति)
Sūryaprajñapti (Suriyapannatti)
No. 234
224.
1873-74.
Size.- Iod in. by 4g in. Extent.- 86-I=85 folios ; II lines to a page ; 42 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper thin and white; Devanāgari charac
ters with पृष्ठमात्राs; bold, big, legible, uniform and elegant hand-writing ; borders ruled in four lines in black ink; most of the foll. worm-eaten to a smaller or greater extent; foll. I" and 86° blank ; each of the foll. 32 and 34 wrongly numbered as 333; fol. 69 lacking ; the folio 74th wrongly numbered as 73rd; complete; condition poor.
Age.-Old. Subject. -- A work on astronomy. This is the sth upānga and it
consists of 20 chapters called prābhrtas. Begins.-fol. 1 नमो(मः) श्रीवीतरागाय ।। नमो अरिहंताणं ।
तेणं कालेणं तेणं समएणं मिथिला नाम नयरी होत्था रिद्धिस्थिमियसमिद्धा
पमुइतजणजाणव etc. Ends.-fol. 86
वीरवरस्स भगवतो जरमरणकिलेसदेसरहितस्स वंदामि विणयपणतो सोक्खुप्पाए सया पाए
छ सूर्यप्रज्ञप्तिसूत्रं संपूर्ण छ सहजइबाइ आर्या धनबाइनी दीष्टा
(१)नी प्रछि सही३ Reference.-- Published along with Malayagiri Sūri's commentary in
the Agamodaya Samiti Series, in A.D.1919. In this connection may be consulted A. Weber's “Ueber die Süryaprajñapti” (Indischen Studien, vol. X, pp. 254-316), Leipzig, 1868, G. Thibaut's "On the Suryaprajnapti" (Journal of the
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In this edition pp. 97 to 102 have been wrongly numbered as 91 to 96.
