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दशवैकालिकसूत्र, चूलिकायुगल, fagfm (fasgia) तथा टीका
No. 709
ii. 4 Malasatras
103
Daśavaikālikasutra, Culikayugala, niryukti (nijjutti) and tikā
721. 1875-76.
Size.-9 in. by 44 in.
Extent. 160 + 1 = 161 folios; 15 lines to a page; 49 letters to a line.
Description.- Country paper very thin and greyish; Devanagarî characters with gears; bold, legible, uniform and elegant hand-writing; borders ruled in three lines in red ink; this Ms. contains Daśavaikälikasutra, the Cülikäs, the niryukti and the commentary; edges of the first fol. somewhat worn out; all the same condition on the whole very good; fol. 36th repeated; complete.
Age.- Pretty old.
Author of the niryukti.-Bhadrabahusvämin, twin pupil with Sambhūtivijaya of Yasobhadra Süri. He is looked upon as the author of ten niryuktis. The texts corresponding to these ten niryuktis are as under :
(1) Avaśyakasutra, (2) Daśavaikālikasutra, (3) Uttaradhyayanasūtra', (4) Acarangasūtra2, (5) Sūtrakṛtāngasutra, (6) Daśäśrutaskandhasutra, (7) Kalpasūtra, (8) Vyavaharasutra, (9) Suryaprajñapti and (10) Ṛṣibhāṣita.s
Muniratna Süri in his Amamasvamicaritra (v. 15) compares these niryuktis with the ten mandalas of the RgVeda. 6
1-4 For a niryukti for each of these works see Nos. 681-682, 6-8, 48-50 and 485-487.
5 See Peterson I, App. p. 15.
6 Vide Peterson III, App. p. 90.
