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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
[52.
Extent.-- 159+I+I=161 folios; Is lines to a page ; 68 letters
to a line. Description. Country paper, thin and white; Devanāgari chara
cters with qora STS; bold, big, uniform, legible and elegant hand-writing; borders ruled in four lines in black ink; strips of paper pasted to the edges of the first and the second foll. ; condition on the whole good ; red chalk used; numbers of foll. entered twice on one and the same page but in different margins ; fol. 125 repeated ; so is the
fol. 152; complete, Age.- Fairly old. Subject.- A commentary partly in Sanskrit and partly in Prākrit
elucidating Sūtrakstängasútra. Begins. --fol. 1 ॐ नमः सिद्धेभ्यः ।
णमो भरहंताणं णमो सिद्धाणं णमो आयरियाणं । नमो उवज्झायाणं । णमो लोए सत्वसाहणं । मंगलादीणि सत्थाणि । मंगलमज्झाणि । मंगलअवसा
जाणं । मंगलपरिग्गहिआ सिस्सा I etc. Ends.-- fol. 159 एतेसिणं भंते पदाणं कतराई पावाई जाई एत्थण सहहण देवु
ताणि । मदीयपक्षस्य तानीत्यर्थः अण्णाणता पवमद्रंणो सहहितं एतेसिणं इमा णं जणवाए एतमद्वस(गट्टम)दहामिंजधसूत्रे तिणतव्वं सव्वमिति ।। छ ॥ नमः सर्वविदे वीराय विगतमौहाय समाप्तं चेदं सूत्रकृताभिधानं द्वितीयमंगामिति ।। भद्रं भवतु श्रीजिनशासमाय श्रीः ।। श्रीः ॥ etc.
सूत्रकृतासूत्रचूर्णि
Sūtrakrtāngasūtracūrņi No. 52
1288.
1887-91. Size.- 102 in. by 44 in.. . Extent.— 245-2=243 folios ; 13 lines to a page; 54 letters to a line. Description.-- Country paper, very thin and greyish ; Devanāgari
characters with पृष्ठमात्राs; big, bold, legible and beautiful hand-writing ; borders ruled in three lines in red ink ; red chalk used; a piece of thick paper of the same size as the foll. pasted to the fol. 1a; edges of the foll. 2, 7, 15, 23, 29, 31 to 33 and 86 worn out to a smaller or greater extent; fol. 164 slightly torn; the fol. 245 written on a
