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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
[ 109. Description. Country paper rough, thin and grey ; Jaina Deva
någari characters with EAST ; bold, clear, uniform and elegant hand-writing; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink, with some space kept between these pairs ; yellow pigment and red chalk used; foll, numbered in the right-hand margin ; the first fol. missing ; edges and corners of several foll. worn out; the roth fol. badly damaged at the corner; same is the case with the 12th and the 19th foll. ; small strips of paper pasted at the corner to the foll. 26 to 33; the 40th (the last ) fol. damaged slightly by white ants; condition tolerably good ; this Ms. contains both the text and the commentary in the same size of hand-writing ; both complete except that they are wanting in the portions covered up by the first missing fol. ; the commentary commences with explanation of the first verse; see p. 4 (line 8 ) of the printed edition (M. L.); dissolu.
tion of syllables denoted by vertical strokes. Age.-- Fairly old. Begins- ( text ) fol. 26
अयं जनो नाथ तब स्तवाय
guiatan enigdel विगाहतां किन्तु यथार्थवाद.
मेकं परीक्षाविधिदुर्विदग्धः ॥२॥ » (com. ) -- fol. 2" Par ll 918 Il teatteetaten i sin
विज्ञानमित्यतिरिच्यते। Ends.- ( text ) fol. 40
इदं तत्त्वात रख | etc. up to कृतिधियः ॥३२॥ as in No. 108. , - ( com. ) fol. 40° gear: 'Sanguf: NITTETIETO Oferanota I etc,
up to सास्त्यत्र सम्यग् यतः । as in No. .... This is followed by the line as below :
इति स्याद्वादमंजरीग्रंथः समाप्तः ॥ छ । छ॥ छ ।
1895-98.
1 Tbg portion que
otoseems to be missing in this Ms.