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Jaina Literature and Philosophy (1103. विशेषावश्यकभाष्य
Višeşāvasyakabhāsya ( FÊTETEFETHIE )
( Visesāvassayabhāsa ) No. 1103
1256.
1887-91. Size.- 9 in. by 43 in. Extent.- 122 + 2 = 124 folios ; 15 lines to a page ; 45 letters to
a line.
Description. - Country paper thin and greyish ; Devanāgari cha
racters with SETS; small, bold, clear and good handwriting ; borders ruled in four lines in black ink ; red chalk used; yellow pigment, too, though very rarely ; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin; fol. 1 blank; marginal notes on fol. 19; fol. 30 repeated; the last but one line of the last fol. thrice scratched with black ink; edges of the last three foll. and those of the first fol.
partly worn out; condition very fair ; complete. Age. - Samvat 1458. Author.- Jinabhadra Gaņi Kşamāśramaņa. He is said to have died
in Vira Samvat 1115. He is the author of the following works: -
(i) Sanskrit commentary of Višeşāvaśyakabhāşya, (ii) Bphatsangrahaņi, (iii) Kșetrasamāsa, (iv) Višeşaņavati, (v) Dhyānaśataka, (vi) Jitakalpa and (vii) Niśithabhāşya.
The authorship of the last work is somewhat doubtful.
See p. 468. Subject. - This important work is a metrical commentry in Prakrit
elucidating Bhadrabāhusvāmin's niryuktion Samāyikadhyayana, a part of Avaśyakasútra. Väsavadattā and Tarangavati are alluded to in this work. That is what strikes
me at present. Begins. fol. 15 Fa: gadgart 11
कयपवयणप्पणामो वोच्छं चरणोगुणसंगहं सपढ़। strehrangati gougatgandai I etc.
