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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
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each and every fol. gone, so the numbering for the foll. is lost in at least some cases; consequently foll. are numbered in the left-hand margin; condition tolerably good; yellow pigment occasionally used for making corrections; the text given in parts along with the Sanskrit paryayas; complete.
Age. Pretty old.
Author of the paryayas.-Not mentioned.
Subject. The text in parts along with its synonyms in Sanskrit, the latter based upon an 'avacuri composed by Jayasekhara Sūri. fol. 1 ५० ॥ अहे ॥
Begins.
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नमि नमिऊण प्रणम्य इंदनरिंदश्चिए इंद्रनरेंद्राचितान इंद्र नरेंद्र पूजितान् तिलोयगुरू[न] त्रिलोकगुरून् उवएसमालं उपदेशमालां । इणमो इमां छामि वक्ष्ये ॥ १ ॥ etc.
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Ends. fol. 300 जाव० || जाव य यावत् । त (ता) व य तावत् । रहया रचिता । जयंमि जगति । थिरथावरा स्थिता स्थावरा वृद्धि: 3 ....... श्र्व ला ... ण लक्ष्मीगणिकृते पठनार्थे हेतुयुक्तिप्रमाणं मुक्ता श्रीजयशेषरसूरिकृतावचूरित एते पर्वाया लिखितः ॥ छ | ग्रंथा ।
उपदेशमालाप्रकरणाचचूर्णि
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Upadesamalaprakaraṇāvacārņi
1200.
1886-92.
No. 258
Size. 10 in. by 48 in.
Extent.
24 folios; 21 lines to a page; 60 letters to a line. Description. Country paper thin, tough and white; Jaina Devanagari characters with occasional gas; very small but perfectly legible, uniform and very good hand-writing; borders ruled in two pairs of lines in black ink; space
1 This avacuri is noted in Jinaratnakosa (Vol. I, p. 50). Here it is said. that this is named as 'paryaya', too.
2 He seems to be that very Jayasekhara Suri whose works are noted by me in No. 154, p. 247.
3 Letters are illegible as the corresponding portion is somewhat worn out.
