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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
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कल्पान्तर्वाच्य
Kalpāntarvācya (कल्पसमर्थन)
( Kalpasamarthana)
289. No. 554
A. 1883-84 Size.-- Iol in. by 48 in. Extent.- 18 folios; 17 lines to a page ; 54 letters to a line. Description.-Country paper thin, rough and greyish; Jaina Deva
nāgari characters with Teres ; small, uniform, legible and elegant hand-writing: borders ruled in four !ines in black ink; red chalk and yellow pigment used; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin only; fol. 18b blank except that कल्पसमर्थनम् etc. written on it; edges of some of the foll.
slightly damaged ; condition on the whole good ; complete. Age.--- Pretty old. Author.--Not mentioned.
Subject.-- In the beginning we find 40 verses in Prakrit and then a
reference that Kalpasūtra forms a part of the 8th chapter of Daśāśrutaskandha. This is followed by a reference to 14 Purvas. Then we find the Ist narrative viz. नागकेतुकथा,
the last being that of a vipra. Begins.- fol. I" ५ ६0॥ ॐ नमः श्रीवर्द्धमानाय ॥
पुरिमचरिमाण कप्पो etc. - Ends.-- fol. 18 यथा स विप्रः किल तीवकोपात्
कृच्छरशोध्यो बहिरवे चक्रे । कोपं न या पर्वदिने()पि जह्यात्
___स संघबाह्यो जिनवाक्यमेतत् ॥८॥ इति श्रीकल्पांतराश्रितं किंचिदलेखीति ॥ छ etc.
परिमचर(रि)माण गाथा etc., practically up to मिथ्या as in No. 549 followed by the lines as under:
दुक(कोतिं ८ श्रीकालिकाचार्यकथा ॥९॥ इति श्रीकल्पसमर्थनं ॥ श्रीरस्तु लेखकस्य । etc.
