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V. 2 CŪLIKĀSUTRAS
THE FIRST CŪLIKĀSUTRA नन्दीसूत्र
Nandisutra ( en)
(Nandisutta )
756. No. 608
1899-1915. Size.-- 10} in. by 44 in. Extent.-- 46 folios ; 9 lines to a page ; 36 letters to a line. Description.-- Country paper thin and greyish; Jaina Devanāgari
characters with as; bold, very big, quite legible and elegant hand-writing ; borders ruled in three thick lines in red ink; foll. 19 and 461 blank; a portion of fol. 1b kept blank most probably with a view to decorate it with an illustation ; yellow pigment used; numbers for foll. entered twice on one and the same page but in two different margins; in the right-hand margin as , etc., and in the left-hand one as ro, fer, aft, etc.;' some of the foll.
slightly worm-eaten ; condition tolerably good; complete. This Ms. includes Brhannandi useful for Yogakriya. This work, too, is published in the Agamodaya Samiti Series at
the end of Nandisutra (pp. 2535 and 254" ). Age.--- Samvat 1648. Author. - Devarddhi Gani also known as Devavācaka, pupil of
Dūşa Guņi. See No. 629. Jarl Charpentier makes the following observation in his introduction (p. 18 ) to Uttaradhyayanasútra :“ After all, I think that the authorship of Devarddhi is not
I It seems that some believe that only palm-leaf Mss. can have letternumerals; but it is not so as can be seen from this paper Ms. I can point out at least two more such paper Mss. where there are letter-numerals. They are
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749
<(Kumārapālaprabhandha) respectively.
1899-1915 Nalayana) and No. 88
Furthermore it may be mentioned that only a majority of palm-leaf Mss. contains letter-numerals. For No. 591 has no letter-numerals, though it is a palmleaf Ms. See p. 263.
