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500.)
IV. 6 Chedasutras
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कल्पसूत्र
Kalpasūtra
761. No. 500
1899-1915. Size.--10 in, by 41 in. Extent.-- 93 - 2 = 91 folios ; 8 lines to a page ; 27 letters to a line. Description. Country paper thin and greyish; Jaina Devanagari
characters with Texas; very big, quite legible, uniform and elegant hand-writing ; this Ms. presents an appearance as if the work is written in two distinct columns; but, really it is not so, since the lines of the first column extend to the second; each column has its borders ruled in four lines; space between the pairs coloured red; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin only ; unnumbered sides have mostly a small disc in red colour in the centre only; the numbered, in the margins, too; fol. 1a blank except that the title
TESTE is written on it; this Ms. seems to be exposed to fire, as some portions at times indicate ; strips of paper pasted to foll. 396, 445, 628 etc. ; fol. 91st slightly torn ; edges of fol. 93rd damaged ; condition tolerably good; foll, s5 and 56 missing ; otherwise complete; extent 1216 ślokas; this Ms. contains 52 illustrations which the Jainas get a chance to see during the paryuşaņa-parvan.
These illustrations can be roughly named ' as under:(1) Tirthamkara Mahävira
fol. 1 • ( 2 ) Ganadhara Gautamasvāmin
(3) 14 dreams seen by Devananda (4) Indrasabhā (5) Sakrastava (6) Indra and Hariņagameşin (7) Garbhaharaņa (8) Garbhasamkramaņa (9) 14 dreams seen by Trišala (10) Mallayuddha
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1 They are mostly named in the Ms. itself, but these names differ at times from those given here.
