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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
( 595.
Reference Published. See No. 591. Peterson's fifth Report
(p. 128 ) and F. Kielhorn's Report in connection with ancient palm-leaf Mss. acquired for the Government of Bombay, 1881 and Indian Antiquary vol. X (p. 100) may be also consulted. For an extract of a bhāşya said to have been composed after this cūrņi see Jinavijaya's edition (p. 17) of Jitakalpasūtra published by Jaina Sāhitya S. Samiti.
जीतकल्पसूत्रचूर्णि
Jitakalpasūtracūrņi ( 51TA19gayon )
(Jiyakappasuttacumni)
23 No. 595
1880-81. Size. -- 124 in. by 2 in. Extent.-85 leaves ; 3 to 5 lines to a leaf; 38 letters to a line. Description.-- Palm-leaf thin, durable and greyish ; Jaina Deva
nāgari characters with EATS; small, quite legible, uniform and good hand-writing; this Ms. presents an appear ance of the work having been written in two separate columns; but, really it is not so; for, the lines of the ist column extend to the 2nd; borders of each of the columns ruled in six lines, in pairs of three, in black ink; there is a hole between these columns; leaves numbered in both the margins; in the right-hand margin as 3, etc ; in the lefthand one as soft 1, 2, 3, etc.; leaf 1* blank except
the title etc. written on it ; a portion of the rst leaf worn out; a strip of white paper pasted to it ; some of the leaves
slightly worm-eaten ; condition tolerably fair ; complete. Age. -- About the 12th century according to Jinavijava. Begins.-- leaf 1 in D llaA: HEITIT
HETTICHIFO etc. Ends.--- leat 836 TOTTIC etc., up to PATATE TUTAETUIE
practically as in No. 594 followed by the lines as under :
