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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
[ 894,
Description. Country paper thin, rough and white; Devanagari characters with occasional gars; big, legible and tolerably good hand-writing; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink; red chalk used; foll. mostly numbered in the right-hand margin only; fol. 203 repeated; so is the fol. 211; a piece of paper of the size of a fol. pasted to foll. ja and 341b; this Ms. does not seem to contain the complete text; only the Ist verse can be easily noticed; Kathakośa complete; some of the foll. slightly worm-eaten; condition good. Age.- Old.
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Commentator. Subhaśila, pupil of Munisundara Suri of the Tapa gaccha. He is an author of the works noted on p. 259. Furthermore, according to Jaina Granthavali etc, he has composed Pañcāstiprabodhasambandha, Dānädikathā (1150 ślokas in extent), Puṇyasarakatha (1311 verses), Silavatikatha (988 verses), Snātrapañcāśikākathā, Bhaktamaramāhātmya, Uņādināmamālā and Pañcavargasaṁgraha.
For other details see No. 888.
Kathakośa. Explanation in Sanskrit of Bharateśvara-Bahubalisvädhyaya along with about 100 narratives. These narratives depict lives of the male and female personages referred to in Bharateśvara-Bahubali-svädhāya and also those of 5 more. See p. 257.
Begins. (text) fol. 1b
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भरसर बाहुबली etc. ( in the margin )
— ( com. ) fol. rh नमः सर्वज्ञाय ।
gar etc. as in No. 888.
Ends.— (com. ) fol. 340b 'अदुःखदर्शिनी' त्याख्यं etc. up to द्वितीयो महासत्यधिकार संपूर्णः as in No. 889.
N. B. For other details see No. 888.
Others are probably not given. They seem to be alluded to, by the word
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इत्यादि.
2 See" upakrama (p. 6a) of the 2nd part of Sri Bharatesvara-Bahubalivṛtti (D. L. J. P. F. Series, No. 87).
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