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JAINA LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY
A. ĀGAMIKA LITERATURE
V. 4 MŪLASŪTRAS'
THE FIRST MŪLASŪTRA
उत्तराध्ययनसूत्र
Uttarādhyayanasūtra (SATHER)
(Uttarajjhayaņasutta )
159. No. 644
1871-72. Size.— 12 in. by 48 in. Extent.-- 73 folios; 11 lines to a page; 46 letters to a line. Description.-- Country paper thin and white; Jaina Devanagari
characters with occasional TCHETTS; big, fairly legible, uniform and elegant hand-writing ; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink; the space between these pairs coloured red; numbers for foll. written in the right-hand margin; foll. 1a and 736 blank ; fol. 16 decorated with a beautiful illustration of a samavasaraṇa with a Tirthamkara in the centre; unnumbered sides have a square in
I For the interpretation of this word mülasūtra and the question of the propriety of the word sütra according to Jarl Charpentier see his introduction (p. 32) to his edition of "The Uttarādhyayanasūtra ".
2 That the meaning of the word uttara occurring in this title cannot mean "best" though so suggested in the commentary on Nandisútra, but it should mean " latter”, is the opinion expressed by Charpentier in his introduction (p. 33) to Uttaradhyayanaşütra
