Descriptive Catalogue Of Manuscripts Vol 18 Part 01

SR No.: 018124
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hiralal Rasikdas Kapadia
Publisher: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute
Publication Year: 1952
Total Pages: 540
Language: English
Classification: Catalogue & Catalogue
File Size: 31 MB

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183.]
Metaphysics etc. : Svetambara works
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Description.-- Country paper thin, rough and white; Jaina Deva
nāgari characters with occasional Taars; this is a gre Ms. ; the text written in the centre ; its place is practically reserved ; the text in a bigger hand ; quite legible, uniform and good hand-writing ; borders unruled ; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin ; almost every fol. more or less worm-eaten ; condition fair ;. both the text and the commentary complete ; the text composed in Sarvat 1629
and the commentary thereafter ; fol, ra blank. Age. - Samvat 1733. Author of the text.- Upadhyāya Dharmasagara Gaņi, pupil of
Anandavimala Suri as he gave him dikşå some time before
Samvat 21596. . Author of the commentary.- Same as that of the text.
Dharmasāgara was born in Lādol. He was enlightened by Jivarsi Gani and was given religious training by Vijayadana Sūri. He attained the status of gani some time before Sarhvat 1606. He has composed works in Sanskrit and Präkrit and have explained some of them by means of an auto-commentary. A tentative list of his works may be given as under :Name Language
3Date *इरियावहियवियारछत्तीसिया Prākrit
1629 for free froTTU Sanskrit
(?) उट्टियमयउम्सुत्त
Prakrit
1617 (?) औष्टिकमतोत्सूत्रदीपिका
Sanskrit
1617 'कल्पकिरणावली
1628 'गुरुतत्त्वदीपक
1 He should be distinguished from his namesake Dharmasāgara, pupil of Isvara Suri of Sandera gaccha, and author of Ārāmanandana-copal composed in Samvat 1587.
2 In SHJL (p.561) this is given as his birth-date but it is wrong as in this very book (p. 582 ) Dharmasāgara is referred to as one who copied Uņādiganasütroddhāra in Vikrama Samvat 1604.
3 By date 'I mean the Vikrama year of composition. 4-5 See this very No. 183. 6 Is this a commentary on Utthiyamaya-ussutta?
7 See Vol. XVII, pt. 2, pp. 102-113. On its p. 105 it is said that Dharma. sāgara is a pupil of Hiravijaya Syri, Same is the case on D. 223 of pt. 2.
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