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IV. 6 Chedasutras
169
Description.- Country paper tough and white; Jaina Devanagari
characters; big, quite legible and elegant hand-writing; borders ruled in a thick red line preceded and followed by two thin red lines; edges, singly in red ink ; foll. numbered only once and that, too, in the right-hand margin; condition excellent except that a piece of paper of the size of the fol. pasted to foll. I* and 1836; foll. 14 and 1835 blank; on fol. 1 a portion on the left-hand side kept blank probably with a view to decorate it with an illustration of a Tirthamkara ; fol. 55th also numbered as 56th:; a janma-kundali of Lord Mahāvira given on fol. 91° is practically as under:
महावीरजन्म'
90
x
99X
K
४ वृरा
The number of months and days the 24 Tirthakaras were in the embryonic condition is tabulated on the same fol.; this Ms. contains the text and the commentary as well ; both seem to be incomplete as the Ms. terminates at the
completion of the seventh vyākhyāna. Age.- Not modern. Begins.-- (text) fol. 10 FT catur etc. up to 5 AC II | Then we have on fol. 11a :
तेणं कालेणं etc. „ — (com.) fol. 10 11 & oil star : 11
sata gari hanter etc.
i Compare the janmalagna given on p. 99 of the printed edition of Kalpadrumakalika.
32 (J. L. P.)