________________
238.]
'जम्बूद्वीपप्रज्ञप्ति वृत्तिसहित
No. 238
Size. 9 in. by 41 in.
Extent. Description.
Age. Fairly old.
VI. 12 Upangas
در
Jambudvipaprajñapti with vṛtti
31.
1869-70.
454 folios; 15 lines to a page; 42 to 47 letters to a line. Country paper thin, brittle and grey; Devanagari characters with gears; bold, legible, big and very good hand-writing; borders ruled in four lines in black ink; red chalk used; foll. 1a and 454b blank; this Ms. contains both the text and the commentary; it is a fret Ms. ; so, the text written in a bigger hand; space reserved for the text; for, it is not utilized even when not a word of it is to be written on the corresponding page; white paste used as pigment; yellow pigment also used; a very big colophon to be found in the Des. Cat. of B. B. R. A. S. vol. III is wanting here; it is given in No. 240; paper does not seem to be of the same quality throughtout; a strip of paper pasted to foll. 313b to 431b; fol. 372 slightly torn, so are the foll. 374 and 385 to 392; condition on the whole very fair; complete, extent of the text and the commentary being respectively 4146 and 14252 ślokas.
317
Author of the commentary.- Hiravijaya Sūri, pupil of Vijayadāra Suri of Tapa gaccha.
Subject. The text along with a commentary in Sanskrit. Begins.—( text ) fol. 64 श्रीगुरुभ्यो नमः नमो अरिहंताणं ààig etc. as in No. 236.
(com.) fol. 1:
जीयात्तेजस्त्रिभुवनतिलकाभं जैनमेनसा मुक्तं ॥
योगिध्येयममेयं कल्पितकृतिकल्पतरुकल्पम् ॥ १ ॥ etc.
End.—( text ) fol. 4524 बहूणं देवाणं etc., up to उवदंसेति त्ति बेमि as in No. 236 followed by छ इति श्रीजंबूद्वीपप्रज्ञप्तिसूत्रं समाप्तं ग्रंथाग्रं ४१४६ छ श्रीरस्तु
28 [J. L. P. ]
