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1112.j III. 4 Mülasutras
477 Description.- Palm-leaf thin and greyish; Devaragari characters
with TATEITS; sufficiently big, legible and very good hand-writing; leaves 22 to IIM are mostly written in a smaller hand ; this Ms. presents an appearance of the work having been written in three separate columns, but really it is not so, since the lines are continuous ; borders of each of the columns neatly ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink; the space between these pairs coloured red; red chalk used; there are two holes in each leaf in the interspaces bet, ween the columns ; leaves numbered in both the margins : in the right-hand margin as usual ; in the left-hand one as श्री, ३, एक etc ; the Ist leaf missing; almost every leaf has
its edges slightly worn out; leaves I to 21 are in a frag.
mentary condition ; the following few leaves worm-eaten ; condition poor; the Ms. placed between two wooden boards; one extra blank leaf in the beginning; colophon
composed by Āśāditya. Age.- Fairly old. Author.-- Maladhärin Hemacandra Sūri. For details see p. 460. Subject.- A Sanskrit commentary elucidating Viseşāvasyaka
____bhāsya. It is styled as Sisyahita and Brhadvrtti as well. Begins.- leaf 2. टादिवस्तुवदिति । एवं प्रस्तुतनामस्थापनाद्रव्यायुद्देशानामपि'
त्यादि भेदानेदो यो etc. अथ समासोद्देशं विवक्षुराह । संखेवा इत्यादि etc. Fnds.-leaf 345 भवतीति चत्वारिंशदाथार्थः ॥ छ ॥ ७९९ पूर्व चाद्यवसानपर्यंत
व्याख्यातानां गाथानां २८२३ उभयं भाष्यगाथानां ३६२२ शेषाणि चतुर्दशाधिकसप्तशतानि अतिदेशेनैव गतानि न तु व्याख्यातानि अतो नेह गणितानि ॥ छ ॥ इत्येषा शिष्यहिता नाम विशेषावश्यकवृत्तिः परिसमाप्ता ॥ छ ।
यस्याग पूगक्षघ(१)मेत्य शेषा
व्यानादपीहान्यभवेऽपि जातः । रवरिवच्छंतभरः प्रतापात्
भवः प्रदेयादृषभो जिनः शं ॥१॥
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