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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
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3rd and the 4th and the 5th and the 6th columns; the same is the case with leaf 414; small, legible and good handwriting ; leaves numbered in both the margins; in the right-hand one as I, 2 etc., and in the left-hand one as श्री, दे, व, एका etc.; leaf ra blank; an extra blank leaf preced१ २ ३ ing it; leaf 2a less legible, ink having faded ; edges of several leaves slightly gone; condition on the whole tolerably fair ; complete so far as the uddeśakas 14 to 20 both inclusive are concerned ; cũrņi of the last uddesaka ends on leaf 235a; leaf 414b blank ; it is followed by one extra blank leaf; this Ms. contains an additional work viz. : निशीथसूत्रभाष्य commencing on leaf 235b and ending on leaf 414"; this Ms. is placed between two wooden boards.
Age.- Samvat 1146. Begins.-leaf Ib॥ नमो वीतरागाय ।।
___ णमो अरहंताणं णमो सिद्धाणं णमो सुतदेवताए भगवतीए ॥ उक्तस्त्रयोदशमः इदाणि[नीं] चतुर्दश.....' गाथा वाति आदि जाव जोग पि शे(?) एते साधु आविसुद्ध त्ति काउं परिसिद्धा ॥ पादं पि पिण्डो चेव अविसुद्ध
बज्जेतव्वं ॥ Ends.-leaf 234 अणुगमो त्ति दारं समत्तं ॥छ॥ etc., practically up to
तीर्थकद्भ्यः as in No. 443 followed by संवत् ११४६ ज्येष्टवदि १४ लिखितमिदं ॥ छ । 'धन(क)रीजा(?)ग्रामे मुंध(?)पसायेन 'श्रीतलवाटा'वस्थितेन महाराजाधिराजश्रीकन(र्ण देवराज्ये ॥ छ ।
यदक्षरपरिभ्रष्टं मात्राहीनं च यद् भवेत् (1) क्षेतमहमि(न्ति?) विद्वान्सः(द्वांसः) कस्य न स्खलते मनः?॥ छ । हस्त(स्त्य)श्वरथयानानि प्रस्खलंति समे पथि।
जिह्वायां तु किमाश्चर्य श्लेष्मव्याकुलिते मुखे ? ॥
मंगलं महाश्री ॥छ ॥छ॥ N. B.- For additional information see No. 443.
1. Letters are not legible, since ink has faded.