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353. ] The Svetāmbara Narratives
307 Description.- Country paper very thin and yellowsish in colour ;
Devanagari characters ; borders uniformly ruled in three lines with red ink up to the 30th fol. only ; red chalk used to mark out the numbers for verses etc. ; ink faded ; letters undiscernible ; rounded, bold, big and very 5 beautiful hand-writing ; small from the 13th fol, to the 30th ; foll, 31-103 written by a different hand and in very small letters ; there is more than one numbering e. g. fol. 31 is numbered as 28 Taard, too; fol. 32 as 29, foll. 33-39 as 30 up to 36; then fol. 40 as 29 STÁ, 41 as 10 29 fatti, fol. 42 as 30 ; from fol. 43 there is double numbering, it being also numbered as i etc. ; this arrangement lasting up to the 46th fol. ; once more fol. 47-69 are also numbered as 1, 2 etc. up to 23 ; again foll. 70-78 renumbered as 1-9, too; foll. 79-82 renumbered as I to 4, IS foll, 83-88 as I to 6, then again foll. 92 to 103 renumbered as 1 to 12, too ; foll. 98 to 109 triply numbered e. g. fol. 98 numbered as 98, 7 and 1 ; yellow pigment used from fol. 31 onwards; a part of the lower border of the 6th fol. and a portion of the 59th fol. pasted with a strip of paper; 20
condition tolerably good. Age.- Seems to be old by two centuries or so. : Author.- Meghavijaya Mahopädhyâya, pupil of Kspävijaya. His
additional works are noted by me in "A History of the Sanskrit Literature of the Jainas” (Vol. I, pp. 83, 201, 214, 25 216, 219, 223 and 224 & Vol. II, pp. 48-49). An alphabetical list of his works is given in Vol. XIX ( sec. 2, pt. 1, pp. 384-385). Leaving aside this work ago I classify the remaining works as under :
व्याकरण 1. Ataqa71
Latest V. S. 1557 2. ANECAESAT
c. V. S. 1577 3. Haiget ( 77891)
V.S. 1757
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