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240.)
Metaphysics etc. : Svetambara works
381
उपदेशमालाप्रकरण
Upadesamālāprakarana विवरणसहित
with vivarana
639. No. 240
1892-95. Size. - 104 in. by 4s in. Extent.— 47 folios ; 21 lines to a page ; 71 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper rough and greyish; Jaina Devanagari
characters with frequent qalas ; very small yet perfectly legible, uniform and beautiful hand-writing; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink; space between these pairs coloured red ; red chalk used; yellow pigment used while making corrections ; foll. numbered in both the margins; fol. 1a blank; unnumbered sides have a small disc in red colour in the centre only; the numbered, in each of the two margins, too; a portion from the righthand side is gone in the case of the first fol.; edges of several foll. worn out to some extent ; condition on the whole tolerably good ; both the text and the commentary
complete. Age.- Fairly old. Author of Narratives.-- Is he Vardhamāna sůri, the one mentioned
in Jinaratnakośa ( Vol. I, p. so )? Subject. The text along with a Sanskrit commentary of Siddharsi.
This commentary contains narrations added to Siddharsi's
commentary. Begins- (text) fol. 16
ATEIATEST etc. as in No. 225. »-( com. ) fol. 1 yco Y TA: Fang |
gainearutoothTÀ: 1 etc. as in No. 236. . Ends.- ( text ) fol. 475
जिणवयणकप्परुक्खो etc. up to बहुस्सयाणं च ॥ as in No. 225. „- ( com. ) fol. 475 grasur gafti etc, up to r etaiotaa
TOJ FAT I E Il as in No. 236. This is followed by the lines as under :
