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260.)
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Metaphysics etc.: Svetambara works Several Mss. of the text are noted in Jinaratnakosa ( Vol. I, p. 254 ).
For a Ms. having the text and its balavabodha by Merusundara see Limbdi Catalogue No. 1658. No. 1657 deals with this bālāvabodha only.
For description of a Ms. having this bare text see Keith's Catalogue No. 7680. See also Weber II, Nos. 1081 and 1082, Peterson Report for 1882-83, p. 91, and his Report for 1884-86, pp. 47, 71, 89 and 176.
उपदेशमालाप्रकरण
Upadeśamālāprakaraņa No. 260
296.
A. 1883-84. Size.— 103 in. by 4. in. Extent.- 10 folios ; 17 lines to a page ; 55 letters to a line. Description - Country paper thin, rough and greyish ; Jaina Deva
någari characters with occasional UHTEITS; small, fairly legible, uniform and good hand-writing ; borders ruled in four lines in black ink ; red chalk used; foll. numbered in
the right-hand margin; complete ; 505 verses in all ; edges
' of some of the foll. slightly worn out; condition good. Age.- Pretty old. Begins.- fol. ray&O TÀI sprata Titio II
FA(A)#FA(
A TTE I etc. as in No. 263. Ends.- fol. 100
. हेममाणचंददप्पणसूरिरिसपढमवन्ननामेहि।
ATT STHJEITATàit itu TU TOHTI! 402P ll etc.
उवएसमालाकरणे । etc. up to मुहत्थीहि ॥ as in No. 263. This is followed by the lines as under:
५०५ इति 'मलधारिश्रीहेमचंद्रसूरिविरचितं पुष्फ(प)मालाप्रकरणं
FHË Illya 49:11 3 11 N. B.- For other details see No. 259.
1 For a similar artifice see p. 309, fn. 1 and p. 362.
2 This verse is given in Peterson, Reports III, p. 47 and there, too, it is numbered as 501.
53 J. L. P.)
