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I 4 Malasatras
STERETETE I
U ttarādhyayanasūtra
86. No. 647
1872-78. Size.--- 10] in. by 4s in. Extent.-- 28 folios ; 17 lines to a page ; 66 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper thin and greyish; Jaina Devanagari
characters with quaraTS ; small, legible, uniform and good hand-writing ; borders carefully and neatly ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink; fol. 12 has marginal notes written on it; those in the right-hand margin have slightly faded; strips of paper are pasted to foll. 2 to 25, and the missing letters written on them ; condition very good;
complete ; yellow pigment rarely used. Age. — Fairly old. Subject. The usual text plus the four verses of its niryukti
which point out the importance of this text. Begins.- fol.
1 0 TA: f1( Par[:] Il soft II
Patient farger etc., as in No. 644.. Ends.- fol. 286 97 ge etc., up to guiat as in No. 644. ... This is followed by the lines as under :
11 Il fagfra TT CAPHIETRIATE 11 8 11 3 11 st II 3 il sont le जे किर भवसिद्धीआ । परित्तसंसारिआ य जे भन)श(रा)
ते किर पढंति एए। छत्तीसं उत्तरज्झाए ।१। This goes up to पुवरिसी एव भासंति ॥ ४॥ (the last line of the
4th verse which is the same as in No. 00m) saft. Reference. This Ms. is referred to by Charpentier in his in
troduction (p. 63 ) to Uttarādhyayanasūtra. There, while comparing this Ms. with No. 644 he observes:
“The first' is dated samv 1651 (= 1595 A. D.), the other2 has no date ; the first has been rather ill used 1-2 By the first he means the Ms. here se rially numbered as 644, and by the other, this very Ms.
