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JAINA LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY
A. ÁGAVIKA LITERATURE
IV. 6 CHEDASŪTRAS
THE FIRST CHEDASŪTRA
161.
निशीथसूत्र
Nisīthasūtra (fatica)
(Nisībasutta ) No: 434
1873–74. Size.— 104 in, by 44 in. Extent. — 32 folios ; fi lines to a page ; 36 letters to a line. Description - Country paper thin, rough and white; Detanāgari
chárdeters with artTENTS; bold, big, quite clear auld good hand-writing ; borders ruled in four linės 'in' black ink; fol. 1 blank ; red chalk and yellow pigment as well, used; edges of the first and last foll. slightly worn out; ' foll, 2 to 10 somewhat worm-eaten; condition tolerably
fair; complete. Age. - Old. Author: A Jaina saint. Subject.- Out of the six chedasūtras this is the first and it con
tains twenty uddeśakas This āgama is called Ācārapagappa'
Acāraprakalpa, Nisīhajjhayaņa and Nišithadhiyayarias as 1-2 See Nos. 440 and 435 respectively.
