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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
1568
THE FIFTH CHEDASUTRA बृहत्कल्पसूत्र
Brhatkalpasūtra ( 9986757')
(Vuddhakappasutta ) No. 568
175.
1881-82. Size.— 124 in. by 5} in. Extent.— 7 folios ; 17 lines to a page ; 46 letters to a line. Description.-- Country paper very thin and grey ; Jaina Devanāgari
characters with ears; bold, big, legible and good handwriting ; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink, on these black lines, thick red lines are drawn; space between the pairs coloured yellow ; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin only; the title he written in the left-hand margin ; unnumbered sides decorated with a diagram in yellow and blue colours in the centre only, the numbered, in each of the two margins, too; the first fol. slightly torn; all the foli. more or less worm-eaten ; condition fair ; fol. 70 blank ; complete ; extent 400 ślokas; this work is known as Kalpasūtra (Kappasutta) and Vedakalpasūtra, too; it is divided into six uddeśakas as under :Uddešaka
foll. Ib to 22 JJ
3e , 4* IV
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VI The last line and a portion of the last but one line are written in red ink,
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I This name is mentioned by Dharmasāgara Mahopādhyaya in his Tattvatarangiņi in the following verse :
" तइमि अ उद्देसे जं भाणअं वुद्धकप्पचुण्णीए ।
CHA 3 EN Farriaguofts FTE HII II P II"
See fol. ge of No. _1348..
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