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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
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'अष्टकप्रकरण
Asta kaprakarana No. 119
151.
1871-72. Size.- 94 in. by 44 in. Extent. 9 folios ; 15 lines to a page ; about 37 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper thick and yellowish in colour ; Jaina
Devanagari characters ; clear, legible and tolerably good hand-writing ; borders ruled in two lines in red ink ; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin; red chalk used to indicate numbers for the Aștakas when completed; the number for the 25th Așțaka is left out, so the remaining ones are incorrectly marked as 25, 26, etc. up to 31; all foll. are intact ; condition excellent; complete.
Age.- Not quite modern. Author:- Haribhadra Suri, well-known as Yakini-mahattara-sanu.
For his life and works see No. I.
Subject.- The work is divided into 32 Astakas, each consisting of
8 verses, except the last which has two additional verses. The ist sixteen Aşļakas are named as under :
(I) देवाष्टक, (2) स्नानाष्टक, (3) पूजाष्टक, (4) दीक्षाटक, (5) भिक्षाष्टक, (6) पिण्डाष्टक, (7) प्रच्छन्नभोजनाष्टक, (8) प्रत्याख्यानाष्टक, (9) ज्ञानाष्टक, (10) वैराग्याष्टक, (II) तपोऽष्टक, (12) वादाष्टक, (13) यमाष्टक, (14) आत्मनित्यबादाष्टक, (15) क्षणिकवादाष्टक and (16) नित्यानित्याष्टक.
The rest are unnamed. Begins.-- fol. 1a
॥५६॥ ॥ ऐं नमः श्रीज्ञानदायकाय । यस्य संक्लेशजननो रागो नास्त्येव सर्वथा। न च द्वेषो(s)पि सत्व (त्त्वे)शमैधनदवानलः॥
1 sīlānka Sūri has quoted from this work (XX), v. 7-8 in his commentary .. on Suyagada (L, 3, 4).
