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148. ) Metaphysics etc. : Svetambara works
401 Reference. — The text is published. See No. 225. In Jinaratna
kośa (Vol. I, p. 5o) only one Ms. of Guņakirti Suri's commentary is noted. So, if there are really no other Mss.
this is a rare one. N. B.- For further particulars see No. 225.
STOITA1919 TOT .
Upadesamālāprakaraņa बालावबोधसहित
with bālāvabodha
1104. No. 248
1887-91. Size.— 104 in. by 48 in. Extent. — 101 folios ; 15 lines to a page; 53 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper thin, rough and white ; Jaina Deva
nāgari characters with frequent TIS ; sufficiently big, perfectly legible, uniform and beautiful hand-writing: borders ruled in three lines in red ink; red chalk used, foll. numbered in the right-hand margin: fol. r. blank: so is the fol. 1o1b; edges of the first and last foll, slightly gone; condition on the whole good ; lacunæ on fol. 1006; both the text and its bālāvabodha practically complete ; the former contains 544 verses; the latter composed in Samvat
1485 Age.- Pretty old. Author of bālavabodha.- Somasundara Sūri, a pupil of Devasun
dara Sūri. This Somasundara Sûri was born in Vikrama Samvat 1430. Sajjana was his father and Mälhaņadevi, his mother. Somasundara took dikşå at the age of 7 in 1437, and became' vācaka ' in 1450 and Suri' in 1457. He died in Samvat 1499. He had 'six disciples : (1) Munisundara, ( 2 ) Jayacandra, (3) Bhuvanasundara, ( 4 ) Jinakirti, Ratnasekhara and ( 6 Jinasundara.
1 He had four other pupils : (a) Kulamaņdara, (b) Gunaratna, (O) Jñanasagara and (d) Sadhuratna.
2 According to some the no. is 13, See my Gujarāti introduction (p. 61 ) to Upadeśaratnakara.
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