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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
[584.
पहत्कल्पसूत्र
Brhatkalpasutraबृहदभाष्य
bịhadbhāsya (वुड्डकप्पसुत्त
(Vuddhhakappasuttaवुडभास)
vuddhabhasa) No.584
150.
1881- . Size.- 13} in. by s} in. Extent.-- 128 folios ; 17 lines to a page ; 63 letters to a line. Description.-- Country paper rough and greyish ; Jaina Devanāgari .. .characters with पृष्ठमात्राs; sufficiently big, legible and good
hand-writing; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink; space between these pairs coloured red ; foll. numbered only once and that, too, in the right-hand margin; unnumbered sides have a disc in red colour in the centre; the numbered, in each of two margins, too; several foll. worm-eaten here and there; margins of a good many foll. damaged ; a strip of paper pasted to foll. JO3, 107, 109 etc. condition fair ; fol. 1a blank; yellow pigment and red chalk
used; complete ; extent 8600 ślokas. Age.--- Old. Author.--- Not mentioned. Subject. -- This bhäşya is different from the preceding laghubhåşya
and is known as brhadbhāsya. It, too, is, however a metrical composition in Prākrit elucidating Bịhatkalpasūtra.
Since this bhāşya has been composed after laghubhaşya of - Sanghadása Gaņi, it is styted as bịhadbhāșya so that it may
be distinguished from the former. Even the cũrņi and
vićeşacũrni have been composed prior to this bshadbhāşya. Begins.- fol. ए ६00 b नमो जिनाय ॥ .
काऊण ममोक्कारं तित्थकराणं तिलोकमाहिताणं । कप्पव(व्व)वहाराणं वक्वाणविधि(हिं ) पवक्खामि । दुगि कारणत्थो धातू पाययसीलीइ भवति कातूणं कातूणं पि ण णज्जति । घडपडकडमाइयं किमवि । तत्थ विसेस[सत्यमिदं भण्णत्ति(ति) कातूण(तो ण)मोक्कारं । णम इति एसणिवातो पणमच्चणपूयणादीस ॥ etc.
