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शांतिं तुष्टिं पुष्टिं श्रेयःसंतानसाख्यकमलाश्च ।
व्याख्यातृश्रोतृणां वृत्तिरसौ दिशतु मंगलैकग्रहं ॥२४॥ प्रशस्तिः ॥
ससूत्रायामिह श्लोकसंख्या संख्याय निर्मिता
पंचपंचाशे शते द्वे सहस्राणि च षोडश ॥२५॥ श्रीसूत्रग्रंथानं २०००॥वृत्तिग्रंथायं १४२५५॥ उभयं १६२५५ ॥ श्रीरस्तु etc.
पंडिनश्रीश्रीश्रीभाक्तिचंद्रगणी तशि(च्छि )ज्यपंडितश्रीमयाचंदगणी तताश( च्छि व्यपंरंगचंदगणिलि. आत्मार्थ स्थवाचन ॥
Reference.-- Charpentier makes the following remark regarding
this Ms. in his introduction to Uttarādhyayanasútra (p. 64):--
“one of the best written Mss. I ever saw.”
For description of additional Mss. having both the text and this commentary see B. B. R. A. S. vols. III-IV, p. 383 (Nos. 1414-1415). From the first four introductary verses given here we learn that this commentary is styled as vyākhyā by Bhāvavijaya, and there were several commentaries composed prior to this.
उत्तराध्ययनसूत्र
Uttarādhyayanasūtra दीपिकासहित
with dipikā No. 671
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1887-91. Size.- IoT in. by 5 in. Extent. – 389 +2+101 +I-I=492 folios; 13 lines to a page ; 44
___letters to a line. Description.-Country paper rough, tough and white; Jaina Deva
nagari characters; big, quite legible and very good handwriting ; borders ruled in two lines and edges in one, in red ink ; numbers for foll. I to 247 entered twice as usual; the rest numbered only once ; foll. 228 and 282 repeated :
