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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
1970
Extent-12 lines to a page: 30 letters to a line. Description - Foreign paper with water-marks thin and blue in colour;
Jaina Devanagari characters%3 big, perfectly legible, uniform and very good hand-writing; borders ruled in two lines in red ink; dandas, the last line etc. written in red ink; foll. num. bered in the right-hand margin as 1,2 etc. for every parvan%; foll. belonging to parvans 18 to 27 are also numbered in the left-hand margin in a serial order beginning with 266 and ending with 395%3; fol.10 is blank; same is the case with fol. 396a and 3960; the first fol. is numbered as 322, while 322th fol. in the serial order is numbered in the left-hand margin as 323; yellow pigment used for making corrections; marginal notes written on some of the first few foll; incomplete but complete so far as the parvans 12 to 27 are concerned. ..
Age - Not old. Author - Howevers, the scribe has written the author's name as ___ " Jinasena" who was preceptor of Gunabhadra.
For other details see the Last but one entry. Begins — fol. 10
ॐ नमः सिद्धेभ्यः । अथ तस्मिन्महाभागे स्वर्लोकाद्भुवमेष्यति ॥ यत्वृत्तकं जगत्यस्मिस्तद्वक्ष्ये श्रुणुताधुना ॥१॥ भत्रांतरे पुराणार्थकोविदं वदतां वरं ॥ पप्रच्छुर्मुनयो नम्रा गौतमं गणनायकं ॥ ३ ॥ भगवन् भारते वर्षे भोगभूमिस्थितिच्युतौ ॥ कर्मभूमिव्यवस्थायां प्रसृतायां यथायथं ॥ ३॥ तदा कुलधरोत्पत्तिस्स्वया प्रागेव वर्णिता।।
नाभिराजश्च तत्रांत्यो विश्वक्षत्रगणाग्रणीः ॥ ४ ॥ etc. (Notes) fol. 10 १ महाभाग्यवति =१ आगमिष्यति =३ इदानीं-२ अवसरे प्रवीण Ends-fol. 395a (8)
राज्ञामावसथेषु शांतजनताक्षोभेषु पीतांभसा - ॥ मश्वानां पटमंडपेषु निवहे स्वैरं तृणग्रासिनि ॥ गंगातीरसरोवगाहि निवनेष्वालानिते हास्तिके ॥ जिष्णोस्तत्कटकं चिरादिव कृतावासं तदालक्ष्यते ॥ १४९ ॥
