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ink; space between these pairs coloured red; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin only; unnumbered sides have a small design in yellow and blue colours in the centre only; the numbered, in each of the two margins, too ; edges of the first fol. slightly damaged ; condition on the whole good ; complete; some say that this work is composed in Samvat 1436 ; no doubt this is the date for its auto-commentary. The entire work is divided into four adhikaras; the extent of each of them is as under :Adhikära I foll. I to 2a 26 verses
, II , 2*, 4* 41, , III, 4*11b 190 »
, IV „ II, 186 158 ;; Age. - Pretty old. Author.-Jayasekhara ( Jayasehara) Súri, pupil of Mahendraprabha
Súri of Añcala gaccha. His spiritual descent is as under:
___ आर्यरक्षितजयसिंह-धर्मघोष महेन्द्रसिंह-सिंहप्रभ-अजितसिंह-देवेन्द्रसिंह-धर्मप्रभ-सिंहfa -
A 94. The last had three pupils viz. asiat, जयशेखर and मेरुतुङ्ग. See No. 97.
For Jayasekhara Sūri's other works see No. 154. Jayasekbara's date is recorded as A. D, 1379 in C. M. Duff's work "The Chronology of India” (p. 229 ),
Westminster, 1899. Subject.-- A metrical composition in 2385 verses in Prakrit
dealing with the following topics:
(1) Eulogy of dharma, ( 2 ) means of practising dharma, ( 3 ) dešavirati and ( 4 ) sarvavirati.
1 This name is indireotly suggested by the author in the 157th verse of the last section. We are to take the middle letter of each of the words BHT, 227, C, 3116, ##, Thor and Tih. In this connection see my article " Methods adopted by Jaina writers for recording their own names and thoge of their gurus in the works composed by them " ( Annals of B. O. R. I. Vol. XVII, pt. I ),
2 In Jinaratnakosa (Vol. I, p. 47.) the no. of gātās is mentioned as 540.
