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2324
Jaina Literature and Philosophy
(1572
Reference. The portions of the text, bhäsya and the commentary
given here are published. See No. 568:
बृहत्कल्पसूत्र
Brhatkalpasūtra (JERF -.)
(:Uddeśakas I-II ) लघुभाष्य
with laghubhāsya तथा टीका
and tīkā No. 572
1222.
1887-91. Size.- 12 in. by 41 in. Extent.— 191 + 2 - 96 - 10 - 1 = 86 folios ; 13 lines to a page ;
60 letters: to a line. Description.- Country paper thin, rough and greyish; Jaina Deva
nāgari characters with occasional SaraS; sufficiently big, legible and good hand-writing; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink ; the space between these pairs coloured red; foll. numbered only once in the body of the Ms.; unnumbered sides have so to say a square in yellow colour; the numbered, in each of the two margins, too; fol. 18 blank except that the title aie is written on it; edges of this fol. as well as those of the last are torn in many a place ; condition on the whole very fair ; foll.40 and 173 repeated ; foll. 45 to 140, 142 to 151 and 180 missing ; numbers of some of the last foll. are rewritten ; so really a fol. may not be missing ; it may be a case of only a wrong numbering ; this Ms. contains the text, its laghubhàşya and the commentary as well ; all complete so far as the 2nd kbanda is concerned, in case the missing foll. are not taken into account ; this Ms. seems to be a continuation of the preceding No. 571 ; this Ms. begins with the roth sútra occurring in the 3rd para of the printed edition (p. I) of Jinavijaya i. e. to say it begins after nine sútras of the first
