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sides have a small disc in the centre, whereas the numbered have over and above this, two more: one, in each margin; thus the numbered have so to say three discs, one in the centre and the other two in each of the two margins, one on each side, each having a further decoration on the upper as well as lower sides by way of a straight line etc.; the first two foll. furnished with two beautiful pictures of two Jinas, the 16th and the 6th or the 21st, as there are marks of a deer and a 'flower at the bottom, whereas there are at the top two peacocks, one on each side; the right-hand margin of the first fol. slightly worn out; foll. 2 to 5 have their corners a little bit damaged; almost every fol. has a portion mostly outside the body eaten away by worms to a lesser or greater degree; condition tolerably good; red chalk used to mark the numbers for verses; foll. 24 to 27 and 33 missing; otherwise complete; this Ms. contains additional works as under:(1) Gasa Vol. XVII, No. 1161 foll. 18-20a ( 2 ) नमिऊणस्तोत्र foll. 20-21
(3) fra Vol. XVII, No. 624 foll. 21-22b ( 4 ) एकोनत्रिंशती भावना foll. 22-23b
23b-incomplete
28-29a, begins abruptly
292-30b
30b-316
31b-32b
32b-incomplete
34-36b, begins abruptly
(5) धम्माधम्मफल ( गौतमपृच्छा )
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6 ) मृगापतिकुलक
(7) 'जय तिहुयण' स्तोत्र ( 8 ) गिरिनारकल्प
(9) शत्रुञ्जयकल्प
( 10 ) सीलह संधुव (II) गौतमस्वामीरास (12) सारदाष्टक Age. Pretty old. Author.
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Dharmadasa Gaņi. In v. 538 the author has suggested his name. 2 Traditionally he is looked upon as a pupil of
Mahavira.
1 If this is a padma, the Jina is 6th; if it is a blue lotus, the Jina is 21st. 2 On putting together the first syllables of the following words we get the author's name:
धत, मणि, दाम, ससि, गय & णिहि. For a similar artifice see p. 309, fn. 1.
