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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
[353.
पश्चदण्डातपत्रप्रबन्ध
Pañcadaņdāta patraprabandha No. 353
1315.
1884-87. Size. - 101 in. by 4; in.
Extent.- 8 folios ; 18 lines to a page ; so letters to a line. 5 Description.- Country paper thin, tough and greyish; Jaina
Devanāgari characters with frequent TSHTITS; small, quite legible, uniform and very good hand-writing ; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink ; red chalk used; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin; in the centre of the numbered and unnumbered sides there is some space kept blank so that it forms a design ; yellow pigment used for making corrections ; edges of some of the foll. slightly gone; condition on the whole good; complete%3; the extent of the five adešas is as under :
Ādeśa I i to
, II . 2 ,, 40 , III 4 , 5. , IV ,,
, v 7 , 20 Age.- Not quite modern.
Author.- Pūrņacandra Sūri. Subject.-.Same as noted for No. 352. Begins.- fol. 1 ॥ ५ ५० ॥
... धर्मोद्यमः सदा कार्ययों) यत्प्रभावात् सुसंपदः। .... .. भवंति विक्रमस्यैव पंचदंडातपत्रवत् ॥१. तथाहि ।। 'मालवदे' उज्जयिन्यां पुरी विक्रमादित्यो राज्यं करोति ।
etc. ५ - fol. 2' इति प्रथममादेशो जातः॥ Ends.- fol. 8 राज्ञा दंडपंचकं । प्रथमं सिद्धरसदंडं १ । विजयदंड २
विषापहारदंडं ३ रत्नदंड ४ मणिदंडं ५एतद् दंडपंचकं गंच्छिकाया समीपगं कृतं रत्नानि च। तैर्दैहैः रत्नैः कृत्वा पंचदंडच्छन महदाश्चर्यकारकं निष्पादित।
