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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
( 520.
Extent.-- 134 folios ; 16 lines to a page; 52 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper sufficiently thick and greyish; Jaina
Devanagari characters; bold, clear, uniform and good hand-writing ; borders ruled in two lines in red ink ; red chalk and yellow pigment used ; toll. numbered in both the margins; a small strip of paper pasted to the fol. 896; the last ( 134th ) fol. slightly torn; condition on the whole very good ; both the text and the commentary complete. The text is divided into three vācyas as under :(1) Parafia
foll. 1 to 103 (2) Feferrat
» 103, ILID (3) HTATES
» 1164 , 134 The commentary is revised by Harşanandana and is divided into 9 vyākhyānas. The extent of them is as follows:Vyākhyāna I
sb to 62 II
6* , 252
258 , 362 IV
„ 362 , 500
sob, 779
77* „ 896 VII
890 ,, 1020 VIII
1026 , 116 LX
116* „ 1346. Age.- Samvat 1744. Author of the commentary.-- Samayasundara Upadhyāya', pupil of
Jinacandra of the Kharatara gaccha. Subject. The text as before, with a commentary in Sankrit to
elucidate it. In this commenarty an attempt has been made to prove that there are six kalyanakas for Lord Mahavira.
1 For a list of his works etc. see my edition of Anekārtharatnamañjüşa published in D. L. J. P. F. Series as No. 81.
2 The question of the impropriety of believing six kalyāņakas is recently discussed in Siddhacakra vol. III, No. 23 ; pp. 538-539.
