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Nyaya : Digambara works अन्यायदीपिका
Nyāyadipika
623. No. 58.
1873-76 : Size.- 10 in. by 5 in. Extent.- 33 folios ; 11 lines to a page ; 37 letters to a line.. Description.- Country paper thin and greyish; Jaina Devanagari
characters; bold, big, legible and good hand-writing; fol. rpractically blank; red chalk and yellow pigment used ; marginal notes written at times; fol. 32 followed by a fol. unnumbered and almost blank; fol. 33° blank; condition very good ; incomplete as it ends abruptly while discussing saptabhangi in the third prakāśa ; the entire work is divided into three prakāśas; the extent of each of them is as under :--
Prakāśa I foll. * to 6*
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__ _II , 1 , 32'. Age.-- Pretty old. Begins.- fol. 10 ॥ श्रीसरस्वत्यै नमः ॥
श्रीवर्द्धमानमर्हतं । etc. as in No. FI.. Ends.- fol. 320 सैषा नवविनियोगपरिपाटी सप्तभंगीन्युज्यते भंगशब्दस्य बस्तुस्वरूप
भेदबाचकत्वात सप्तानां भंगानां समाहार सप्तभंगीति सिद्धे। नन्वेकत्र वस्तुनि सप्तानां कथं संभव इति चेत् यथैकस्मिन् रूपवान् घटः।..
This Ms ends here thus abruptly. Then on fol. 33" we have:
श्रेयान स्वधर्मो विमुकः परधर्मात् स्वहितात् ।
स्वधर्मे निधनं श्रेयः परधर्मो भयावहः।' AN. B.-- For other details see No. SI.
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This verse occurs in Bhagvad-gita (III,351.
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