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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
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पडावश्यकसूत्र
Şadāvasyakasūtra अवचूर्णिसहित
with avacūrņi No. 991
1306
1891-95. Size.— 104 in. by 41 in. Extent.-- (text) 23 folios ; 7 lines to a page; 40 letters to a line.
--(com.), , ; 10 , ,, ,, ; 45 , ,, , Description.- Country paper thin and greyish ; Devanāgari cha
racters with पृष्ठमात्राs; bold, big, clear and good hand-writ_ing; borders ruled in four lines in red ink ; this is a त्रिपाटी Ms.; it contains both the text and the commentary; the text written in the middle and in a bigger hand; fol. 19 blank; fol. 23° is also blank except that the title is written on it; edges of the first fol. slightly damaged ; red chalk and yellow pigment used; the text and the commentary complete so far as they go ; extent 1000 ślokas; condition
tolerably good. Age.-- Pretty old. Author of the text-More than one saint. , ,, com.- Not mentioned. It may be Devendra Suri,in
case this commentary is really the same as Vandāruvstti. Subject. This work deals with the following sütras which are to
be recited at the time of performing a religious function viz. pratikramana.
(1) नवकारमंत्र, (2) इरियाबहिय, (3) तस्म उत्तरी, (4) अन्नत्थ, G) नमुत्थु णं, (6) अरिहंत चेइयाणं, (7) लोगस्स, (8) पुक्खरवर, (७) सिद्धाणं बुद्धाणं, (10) जावंति चेइयाई, (II) नमोऽहंत , (12) (13) उवसग्गहरं, (14) जय वीयराय, (15) संसारदावानल, (16) जगाचिंतामाण, (17) सुगुरुवंदन, ( 18 ) देवसिअ आलोउ, (19) सव्वस्स वि (?), (20) अन्भुट्रिओ, (21-30) दस पच्चक्खाण, (31) अतीचारगाथा, (32) करेमि भंते, (33) वंदित्तु (श्राद्धप्रतिक्रमणमत्र ), (34)
आयरिय उवज्झाए, (35) श्रुतदेवतास्तुति, (36) नमोऽस्तु बर्द्धमानाय, (37) बरकनक and (38) विशाललोचन.' These sūtras are briefly explained in the avacürņi.
1 Thus the text contains some more sūtras than what we find in the printed edition containing the Vandāruvstti and its text.
