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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
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Reference. These two gathas occur as v. 2-3 in Oghaniryuktibhāṣya. They are printed along with their explanation in Gujarati on p. 551 of the edition of Pañcapratikramaṇasūtra published by the Jaina Śreyaskaramaṇḍala, Mhesana in A. D. 1915. They are quoted by Haribhadra Suri in his commentary (p. 4") on Daśavaikālikasūtra and its niryukti.
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चैत्यवन्दनकुलक' (चेयवंदणकुलय)
No. 1215
Size. 10 in. by 47 in. Extent.
Caityavandanakulaka (Ceiyavanda nakulaya)
722. 1899-1915.
100 folios; 13 lines to a page; 49 letters to a line.
Description. Country paper thick, tough and white; Jaina Devanagari characters; small, quite legible, uniform and very good hand-writing; borders ruled in three lines and edges in one, in red ink; a part of the first line, numbers for the verses and their dandas are written in red ink; at times even the numbers for the foll. are written in red ink; foll. numbered in both the margins; fol. 1 blank; the title is written in the left-hand margin in various ways eg. चैत्यवंद ०कु०, चैत्यवद कु०, चैत्यकु वृ०, etc; both the text and the commentary complete; the latter composed in Samvat 1383; condition very good.
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Age.- Modern.
Author of the text- Jinadatta Suri, grand-pupil of Abhayadeva Suri, the Navängivṛttikāra.
com.- Jinakuśala Suri, pupil of Jinacandra Suri.
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Subject. A metrical composition in Prakrit dealing with devavandana. This is explained in Sanskrit.
I The commentator of this work styles it as Devavandanakulaka.
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This is revised and corrected by Rajendracandra Suri.
