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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
1539.
Description.- Country paper thin, rough and greyish; Jaina
Devanagari characters with occasional पृष्ठमात्रा ; small, legible and tolerably good hand-writing; borders ruled in four lines in black ink ; space between the pairs coloured yellow ; foll. numbered in both the margins; numbering is not continuous ; for, there are 3 sets : Ist containing 26 foll., the 2nd 38 and the third I-I i.e. 20, since:the first fol. of this set is missing ; the fol. 38b blank ; unnumbered sides have a small design in yellow and blue colours in the centre only; the numbered, in each of the two margins, too; yellow pigment used while making corrections; a portion of the first fol. worn out; this Ms. contains some portion of Kalpasūtra along with its explanation in Gujarāti; the text begins with the 57th sūtra ; edges of some of the foll. slightly gone ; condition tolerab
ly fair. Age.-- Old. Author of the commentary.-- A Jaina saint of the Kharatara gaccha. Subject.- The six kalyanakas of Lord Mahavira seem to be ex
pounded elsewhere ; for, this Ms. begins abruptly. Begins.- ( text ) fol. 1 तए णं सिद्धत्थे खत्तिए पठन्सकालसमयसि कोडुंबिय
पुरिसे सहावेइ २त्ता एवं वयासी ५७ etc. , -- (com.) fol. I ॥६ ॥
नमः श्रीवर्द्धमानाय । श्रीमते च सुधर्मणे सर्वानुयोगवृद्धेभ्यो वाण्यै सर्वविदस्तथा ।१।" अज्ञानतिमिरांधानां ज्ञानांजनशलाकया नेत्रमुन्मीलितं येन तस्मै श्रीगुरवे नमः ॥२३ सूरिमु(द )द्योतनं वंदे वर्द्धमानं जिनेश्वरं
जिनचंद्रप्रभुं भक्त्या(S)भयदेवमहं स्तुवे ॥३ श्रीजिनवल्लभजिनदत्तसूरिजिनचंद्रजिनपतियतींद्राः ।
लम्यो(?) जिनेश्वराजिनप्रं'......जिनचंद्रगुरवः स्युः । ४ 1-2 The प्रतीकs of these two verses are given in No. 520. See p. 129. 3 Letters are gone.
