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आवश्यक सूत्र नियुक्ति (आवस्सयसुत्तनिज्जुत्ति )
III. 4 Malasatras
Avasyakasutraniryukti (Avassayasuttanijjutti)
371
629.
1892-95.
No. 1002
Size. 103 in. by 48 in.
Extent. 35 folios; 24 lines to a page; 60 letters to a line. Description. Country paper very thin and greyish; Devanagari characters with as; very small, clear and fair handwriting; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black nk; the space between these pairs coloured red; numbers for some of the foll. entered twice in one and the same margin; bits of paper pasted to fol. 1a; edges of the first two and those of the last two slightly worn out; unnumbered sides decorated with a small disc in the centre; the numbered, with two more, one in each of the two margins; complete ; red chalk used; condition fair.
Age.-Samvat 1483 (?)
Author.
"C
Bhadrabahusvämin. For his other works etc. see No.709. For a discussion in German see Übersicht über die Avaśyaka-Literatur" (pp. 23-27).
Subject.-- About 50 verses which occur in the begining of this Ms. and form the Sthaviravali are also found in the beginning of Nandisutra. But they are not found in the edition containing Avaśyakasūtra, its niryukti and Haribhadra Suri's commentary (D. L. J. P. F. Series). They do not occur even in the edition containing niryukti and Malayagiri Suri's tīkā (Agamodaya Samiti Series). Furthermore, they are not commented upon by Jinabhadra Kṣamāśramaņa, Haribhadra Suri, Malayagiri Sūri or any other commentator of the Avaśyakasūtraniryukti; but they occur in various Mss. This may due be to the fact that some scribe wrote them perhaps as mangalācaraṇa and others followed in his foot-steps. So if we were to neglect them for a moment, the Avaśyakasūtraniryukti, which is a metrical composi
