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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
[4. Pramānaprakasa
प्रमाणप्रकाश
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No. 41
1302. 1891-95.
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Size.- 10f in. by 44 in. Extent.- 1 folio ; 12 lines to a page ; 38 letters to a line. Description.-Country paper thin, rough and white; Jaina Deva
nagari characters with occasional पृष्ठमात्राs; sufficiently big, legible, uniform and good hand-writing ; borders ruled in three lines in red ink ; the Ist fol. numbered in the righthand margin only ; complete; condition very good ; in the left-hand margin the title is written as प्रमाणप्रकाश.
Age.--Old. Author.-Padmasagara Gani. For details see No. 13. Subject.-Discussion about the prāmānya. Side by side it is a
devotional poem eulogizing Lord Santinātha, the 16th
Tirthamkara of the Jainas.... Begins.- fol. !" ॥१६ ॥
स्वस्ति भियां यस्य पदं प्रमाण
प्रकाशमावि कुरुते मतं मतं ॥ .: उपास्महे तं प्रणिधानसस्थितं
ज्ञानात्मकं शांतिजगत्त्रयेश्वरं ॥१॥ ......... प्रामाण्यहेमेश्वरसंनिकर्ष
पोते क्षिपत्येष तवारियोगः॥ स्वदर्शितं न व्यभिचाररंधं
ददर्श जात्यंध इवापि पश्यन् ॥२॥ etc. Ends.- fol. I0 .
स्वामिनिजान्यव्यवसायि सम्यम्..
ज्ञानप्रमाणोत्तमरत्नहारं ॥ . .
यो न्यस्थति स्वेदहृद(?) स नूनं
स्यात्संपदामास्पदमंगिवल्लभः ॥२०॥ हति स्फरवाचकधर्मसागर
क्रमाज,मः कविपद्मसागरः॥