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Nyaya : Svetambara works प्रमाणमीमांसा
Pramāṇamimāṁsā स्वोपज्ञवृत्तिसाहित
with svopajña vrtti No. 43
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1356.
1884-87. Size.-104 in. by 44 in. Extent. -- 23 folios; 15 lines to a page ; 49 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper thin, rough and white; Jaina Deva
nāgari characters; small, fairly legible, uniform and tolerably good hand-writing ; borders of all the foll. except the 20th ruled in two lines in red ink, whereas those of the 20th in three ; edges of all the foll. in one; red chalk and yellow pigment used; foll. I to 12 numbered twice in the righthand margin: once as 1, 2 etc. and another time as 17, 18 etc.; edges of the first and the last foll. slightly gone ; condition on the whole good; both the text and the commentary complete so far as they go ; they start with the Ist sútra of the second ahnika of the first adhyāya which ends on fol. 9a and stops with Parokşak banda i. e. to say the
first āhnika of the second adhyāya. Age. - The 18th century. . Author of the text.- Hemacandra Sūri, the well-known polygrapher. ?
. „ of the commentary. - The same as mentioned above. Subject.- A work on logic and its explanation. Both are in
Sanskrit. Probably this is the first Śretāmbara work having āhnikas as the subdivisions of the adhyāyas. It
1 Cf. !!
. "बोधबीजमुपस्कर्तुं तत्वाभ्यासेन धीमताम् । H EIDENT hai aafna li pita
-Pramānamimdinså 2. For description of a Ms. containing Hemacandra's Kavyāpusīsana and its commentary styled as Alamkāracūļāmaņi composed by the author himself see the “Descriptive Catalogue of Alamkāra, Samgita aud Nățya Mss. (Vol. XII ) pp. 139-141.