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faina Literature and Philosophy
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शिष्यहिता
Sisyahitā (उत्तराध्ययनसूत्र
(UttarādhyayanasūtraTECER)
brbadvrtti )
258. No. 683
1883-84. Size.— 114 in. by 43 in. Extent.— 392 + 3 -- 3 = 392 folios ; 15 lines to a page ; 53 letters
to a line. Description.-- Country paper thin, rough and greyish ; Jaina Deva
nāgari characters with AES; sufficiently big, quite legible and elegant hand-writing ; borders ruled in four lines in black ink ; 'red chalk used; numbers for foll. entered only once, and that, too in the right-hand margin ; foll. I to 8 numbered twice in the right-hand margin ; foll. 18, 26 and 29 repeated; foll. 53 to 56 bracketed together ; a piece of paper of the size of a fol. pasted to fol. rå; fol. 1a blank; fol. 392 equally so, except that the title GFTIETT(a) Tia: and its extent written on it; edges of the first and the last foll. slightly worn out; condition on the whole very good ; almost half the portion of fol. 1b blank; it appears that the scribe wanted to decorate it with an illustration propably of a Tirthamkara ; complete ; extent 18000
ślokas; the entire work is divided into 36 sections. Age.-- Samvat 1667. Author.-- Śānti Süti, pupil of Sarvadeva of the Thārapadra gaccha.
For his life see Prabhāvakacaritra (pp. 216-224 )' As stated therein (pp. 236-237 )2 he revised Tilakamañjari. He attained svarga in Samvat 1096. See C. M. Duff's " The
Chronology of India” (p. 120), Westminster, 1899. Subject.- A very big commentary explaining Uttarādhyayanasutra
and its niryukti. The nihnava-vāda is very beautifully treated here. Its treatment seems to surpass even the ex
position given in the Višeşāvaşyaka-bhāşya. Prior to the I See the introduction (pp. 79-81 ) of the Gujarāti translation of Prabhāvakacaritra.
2 See Prabhāvakacaritra (p. v. 201-202.
