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591. 1 Jitakalpasätra
263 JĪTAKALPASŪTRA . Stanete
Jitakalpasūtra ( signee)
(Jiyakappasutta )
-75 (a), No. 591
1880-81, Size.- 13} in. by 2 in. : Extent.-- 18 + 1 = 19 leaves; 5 lines to a leaf; 40 to 45 letters
to a line. Description.- Palm-leaf thin, very durable and greyish; Jaina Deva
nāgari characters with TAFS; sufficiently big, clear, uniform and good hand-writing; this Ms. presents an appearance as if the work is divided into two columns; but, really speaking it is not so, since lines of the first column extend to the second ; borders of each of the columns ruled in six lines in black ink; there is a hole in the space between the two columns; red chalk used to bring into prominence the numbering for verses ; leaves numbered in both the margins, but in numbers only as S, etc; leaf' 1a blank; several leaves slightly worm-eaten ; condition tolerably good; this work ends on leaf 12a; complete ; this Ms. contains in addition the two works as under :(1) 194107347
leaves 124 to 13b. (2) facerdotalireretranieraapur , 135 to 186. There is one extra blank leaf at the end. This Ms. is
placed between two wooden boards. Age.- Fairly old. Author.--- Jinabhadra Gaņi Kşamāśramaņa, author of Viseşāvas
yakabhāşya and its svopajña commentary, Visesaņavati and Brhatkşetrasamäsa'. He was alive according to the tradition ir or about Vira Samvat III5 i. e. the Vikrama Samvat 645
I In this work I, 69 ff. word-symbols have been used with the left to right arrangement to express numbers. See “History of Hindu Mathematics” pt I, p. 61.
